1. لَستُ حَريصاً عَلى الأَخذِ

    أَلمِسُهُ وأُعيدُهُ إلى مَكانِه

    I am not eager to take

    I touch it and return it to its place

  2. في

    ...

    in

    ...

  3. قَفَصِه .

    /

    its cage.

    /

  4. أَو رُبما أُعطى وآخُذُ

    ولا أَعلَمُ ما إن كُنتُ

    Or perhaps I am given, and I take

    and I do not know whether I had been

  5. أُعطيتُ

    وما إن كُنتُ

    given

    and whether I had

  6. أَخذتُ .

    /

    taken.

    /

  7. مِثلَما حينَ

    كُنتُ أَنظُرُ

    Just as when

    I was looking

  8. باِتجاهٍ آخَرَ

    بَعيداً عَنكِ

    in another direction

    away from you

  9. دُونَ إنذار

    رَمَيتِ لي

    without warning

    you threw me

  10. قَلبَكِ .

    /

    your heart.

    /

  11. مُغلِقاً كِلتا أُذُنَيَّ

    بالأَغاني

    Closing both my ears

    with songs

  12. تُثبِتُ لي في كُلِّ مَرَّة

    أَنِّي عَلى خَطَأ

    that prove to me every time

    that I am wrong

  13. مُردِّداً أَمامَكِ

    بِأَنَّ إكسيرَ المَعرِفة

    repeating before you

    that the elixir of knowledge

  14. لَقاحٌ فَعَّالٌ

    لِجَميعِ أَنواعِ

    is an effective vaccine

    against all kinds

  15. اِلتِهاباتِ القَلب .

    /

    of inflammation of the heart.

    /

  16. كأَنَّه لَم يُعرَض عَلَي

    سِوى ما التَقَطَهُ الآخَرَون

    As though nothing had been offered to me

    except what the others had picked up

  17. ثُمَّ عَضُّوهُ بِأَضراسِهِم

    فوجَدوهُ

    then they bit it with their molars

    and found it

  18. حُلواً ومُرَّاً مَعاً

    بِطَعمِ الصَّدأ

    sweet and bitter at once

    with the taste of rust

  19. فَرَموه

    لأَنَّ لَديهِم مِثلَهُ الكَثير

    so they threw it away

    because they had plenty like it

  20. وقد مَلُّوا مِن جَمعِه

    ولأَنَّهُ

    and had tired of collecting it

    and because it

  21. ما عادَ يَنفَعُهُم في شَيء

    فقَد شَبِعوا مِن أَلَمِه

    was no longer of any use to them

    for they had had their fill of its pain

  22. وهذا لَيسَ صَحيحاً

    فالحُبُّ والغِيرَةُ

    and this is not true

    for love and jealousy

  23. وبَقيةُ المعادِنِ المائعَة

    كانَت بالنِّسبةِ لي

    and the rest of the liquid metals

    were, for me,

  24. كُلَّ ما يَلزَمُني

    لإقامَةِ أَنصابي .

    all I needed

    to erect my monuments.

  25. /

    اِنتظرتُ وُصُولي

    /

    I waited for my arrival

  26. زَمناً كثيراً

    وكأَنَّ أَحَداً أَعطاني

    for a long time

    and as though someone had given me

  27. زَمَناً بِلا ثَمَن

    زَمَناً لا يَبدَأُ ولا يَنتَهي

    time at no cost

    time that neither begins nor ends

  28. زَمَناً ليسَ لهُ زَمَن

    لأَنِّي في المُقابِل

    time that has no time

    because, in return, I

  29. قُمتُ بِكُلِّ ما يُعيقُني

    تَباطَأتُ تَباطَأت

    did everything that hinders me

    I slowed down, I slowed down

  30. خلَعتُ وارتَديتُ مَلابِسي

    أَمامَ المِرآةِ

    I took off and put on my clothes

    in front of the mirror

  31. أَلفَ مَرَّة

    وأَلفَ مَرَّة

    a thousand times

    and a thousand times

  32. رَتَّبتُ الطاولِة

    فالحَنين

    I arranged the table

    for longing

  33. يُطالِبُني بكُلِّ ما هُو

    ضِدُّ

    demands of me everything that is

    against

  34. الفَوضى .

    /

    disorder.

    /

  35. وهوَ أَيضاً ما يُبكيني

    في ظِلِّ النَّهار

    and it is also what makes me weep

    in the shadow of day

  36. أَستيقِظُ ولا أَعرِفُ

    أين يَقَعُ الوَقت

    I wake and do not know

    where time lies

  37. هَلِعاً أَتلفَّتُ

    يَميناً ويَساراً

    In panic, I look around

    to the right and to the left

  38. فلا أَجِدُ مَن كُنتُ أَحسَبُهَ

    يَحضُنُني

    so I do not find the one I thought

    was embracing me

  39. مَن بِكِلتا

    يَدَيَّ

    the one whom, with both

    my hands,

  40. دَفعتُهُ عَنِ

    السَّرير ..

    I pushed away from

    the bed..