ذوتwithered الصبابةardent yearning وانطوتand folded away
ذوت الصبابة وانطوت
وفرغتand I was done منwith آلامهاits pains
وفرغت من آلامها
Yearning withered and folded away,
The youth has withered and folded away
and I was done with its pains.
And freed itself from its sorrows
لكننيbut I ألقىencounter المناdeath (word continues)
لكنني ألقى المنا
ياcompletion of 'death' منfrom بقاياremnants جامهاits goblet
يا من بقايا جامها
Yet I encounter death
But I face the tomorrow
from the remnants of its goblet.
O you of the remnants of its cup
عادتreturned إليَّto me الذكرياmemories (word continues)
عادت إليَّ الذكريا
تُcompletion of 'memories' بحشدهاwith their throng وزحامهاand their crowding
تُ بحشدها وزحامها
Memories returned to me
The memories returned to me
with their throngs and their crowding,
With their crowds and congestion
فيin ليلةa night ليلاءpitch-black أرbeginning of 'kept awake'
في ليلة ليلاء أر
رَقنيcompletion of 'kept me awake' عصيبoppressive ظلامهاits darkness
رَقني عصيب ظلامها
on a pitch-black night
On a dark night I saw
whose oppressive darkness kept me awake.
A painful darkness afflicted me
هدأتgrew still رسائلletters حبهاher love
هدأت رسائل حبها
كالطفلlike a child فيin أحلامهاtheir dreams
كالطفل في أحلامها
Her love letters lay still,
Her love letters calmed down
like a child in their dreams.
Like a child in its dreams
فحلفتso I swore لاnot رقدتthey slept ولاnor
فحلفت لا رقدت ولا
ذاقتthey tasted شهيsweet منامهاtheir slumber
ذاقت شهي منامها
So I swore they would not sleep, nor
So I swore not to sleep nor
taste the sweetness of their slumber.
Taste any of its slumber
أشعلتI kindled فيهاin them النارthe fire ترbeginning of 'feeding'
أشعلت فيها النار تر
عىcompletion of 'feeding' فيon عزيزcherished حطامهاtheir wreckage
عى في عزيز حطامها
I kindled fire in them,
I lit the fire in it to wan
feeding on their cherished wreckage,
der in the rubble of its treasure
تغتالslays قصةthe story حبناour love
تغتال قصة حبنا
منfrom بدئهاits beginning لختامهاto its end
من بدئها لختامها
slaying the story of our love
To assassinate the story of our love
from its beginning to its end.
From its beginning to its end
أحرقتهاI burned them ورميتand I cast قلheart (word continues)
أحرقتها ورميت قل
بيcompletion of 'my heart' فيinto صميمthe very core ضرامهاtheir blaze
بي في صميم ضرامها
I burned them and cast my heart
I burned it and threw my heart
into the very core of their blaze.
In the midst of its embers
وبكىand wept الرمادthe ashes الآدميhuman (word continues)
وبكى الرماد الآدمي
يُcompletion of 'human' علىover رمادashes غرامهاher passion
يُ على رماد غرامها
And the human ashes wept
And the human ashes cried
over the ashes of her passion.
Over the ashes of its passion
Sol 6.1