1.
Be that lovers die
Of love
No mystery!
But that they survive
That is the true mystery!
2.
I wish she knew
That I never remember
Her!
Yet, how to remember
Her?
When I never forget
Her!
3.
What's more astonishing?
I miss her!
I constantly ask
For her news
While she is with me!
My eyes seek her
While she is there
My heart misses her
While she lives in it!
4.
I pass by Leila's quarters
Kissing this wall and
that wall
What has enflamed my heart
Is not the love of the quarters
But the love of the one
Who inhabited the quarters!
5.
Eyes within the hearts of
lovers
They see with
What the viewers do not see!
6.
So many seas boiling
In silence
So many winds blowing
Humbly
So many waters flowing
Sadly
Crying the heart
Of a lost lover!
7.
When we met
At the foot of a cliff
I saw Leila's red fingers
I said: henna of joy?
After our separation!
She replied: May Allah preserve me!
When I saw you leaving
I wept blood
Flooding the ground
I wiped my eyes with my fingers
And here is the red on my hands
As you see!
8.
Love could never
Enter my heart
But upon seeing your eyebrows
I could only fall
In love with you!
9.
It's because your love
Is mortal
And whatever you command
My heart
It will do!
10.
As long as I live
My heart adores you
And when I die
My echo will follow yours
Even to the grave.
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11.
You are the happiness
Of my heart
And its punishment
What bitterness you are!
And what sweetness!
To my heart
12.
I wished that
My bond with you
Would be a solid edifice
And that my bond with the world
Would be ruins!
13.
Your love flows
In my heart
As blood
In my veins
14.
Your eyes have fought
All hearts
There are only
Wounded or dead!
15.
Sometimes I wish
To sleep all the time
Hoping thus to find
My beloved in my dreams!
16.
Dreams tell me that I see you
I have so wished that
The dreams of sleep
Were a certainty!
17.
If because of love
There are humiliated ones
On earth
Still, even the beloved of lovers
Is humiliated!
18.
May your heart know
Many lovers
True love
Always belongs
To the first lover!
19.
If you seek all the
Beautiful things
Just look
At your lover's
Beautiful face!
20.
Do not fight me with your
Two eyes
Two, even weak, can
Defeat one stronger!
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21.
If ever my eyes
See your beauty arriving
I become intoxicated without even drinking a drop!
22.
In her, I saw the full moon
Walking on earth
Yet before
I had never seen
A moon walking on Earth!
23.
They said:
Tomorrow the separation from
The Beloved
I said:
Rather my death before
The separation comes!
24.
Say goodbye!
We might part
I doubt I will live
Until I see you again!
25.
If you weren't so dear to me
Like my eyes and my ears
My eyes would never see
Nor my ears hear!
26.
I kissed you for so long
That
I said
The fire of my passion is
Extinguished
But my fires
Never went out
They in fact
Ignited!
27.
My soul follows love
Wherever it goes
Until love
Has become
Inseparable from my being!
28.
My love for you is so
Great
That if a bit
Flooded the world
It would die from such a powerful love!
29.
What is heavier on the eye
Than its tears
When the loved ones part
With no hope of return!
30.
You leave!
In your hands my heart
First Give me back my heart!
And go where you wish!
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31.
The longer it lasts
The pain in my heart
The more it misses
Its executioner, my heart
32.
No cure!
For all harms,
Except love!
And no other healing!
33.
A place,
Where you are,
Is so vast!
A time,
Where you lived
Is so lovely!
34.
I left you for so long
That they said
He is not a lover!
And I saw you so often
That they said
He is impatient!
35.
She said: "The Beloved
Made you crazy!"
I replied: "Being
Passionate,
Is severer than being
Mad!"
36.
Your love, my beloved,
Made my life beautiful
Your whispers dispelled
My grief forever!
37.
I said: so many things testify
To my love for you
The most truthful: my heart and my
Bleeding tears!
38.
She and the moon
Seem like twins
Yet sometimes she appears
While the moon disappears!
39.
Even if she oppresses me
What oppression!
Sweeter than liberation!
40.
You possessed my heart
While you live inside it!
How did you contain
What contained you?
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41.
Tell the beloved:
How to enjoy life without her!
While I am wandering
And the heart is residing?
42.
Inflict any punishment on me
Except rejection!
No punishment is
Comparable
To rejection!
43.
She took my heart
In her love
And my heart
Blindly obeyed her!
44.
To her
I am submissive in love
Despite my pride. Indeed, every suitor
Is submissive to his beloved!
45.
Torture my heart!
As you wish!
The torture of love
Is my ultimate desire!
46.
A part of me
Dies, burned
By the fire of abandonment.
Another,
Drowned
In a flood of tears!
47.
Envious, the roses
Commit suicide
Throwing their blood on your
Cheeks!
48.
Getting used to it is so hard!
To your absence, but the hardest
Is getting used to your
Presence!
49.
Through the pores of my skin,
She penetrates
Like a drop of dew
Penetrates!
50.
Your beauty, I see it
In my poetry, in my
Creation,
In my songs,
In my hearing and my
Visions!
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51.
Nothing could quench
The thirst of my heart
Apart from a union
Of our two kindred souls!
52.
Oh, beloved!
You have abandoned me
Without sin on my part.
Be patient!
Your abandonment and death
There is no difference!
53.
I perceive you
In the breath of flowers
I perceive you
In the sunrise, even in the nocturnal dawn!
54.
Strong storms
From the sea of love
Attack me,
Its waves
Collide
Within my soul!
55.
You are sweeter
Than the drowsiness of my
Eyes,
More delightful
Than the peace in my heart!
56.
The doctor, in ignorance,
Tested my wrist.
I then said:
Love is in the heart
Leave my wrist, doctor!
57.
You are the light!
Rather a beacon for navigators,
You are the bright full moon,
You are the morning sun!
58.
Always being with you
Is my happiness,
But my soul
Prefers in your love,
The suffering!
59.
Beloved! Do I have a place?
In your heart? Like the one
You have in mine?
60.
How I love you!
How I love you so much!
That I am astonished by myself!
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61.
Always be with her,
Hoping to live again,
And know that
The prisoner of love
Is the great prisoner!
62.
My beloved enchanted me
With her dark eyes.
In fact, the enchantment
Is in the dark eyes!
63.
Her captivating eye
Shot at my heart.
I fought back,
Retreating in front of this army of love!
64.
I never believed
In the magic of eyes
Until yours
Captured me in love!
65.
I denounced the lovers
Until I experienced
Love.
I wondered
How can one live without
Love!
66.
Beauty enthroned you
On its throne.
So govern the heart
Of the one who adores you!
67.
You are so sweet
Like childhood!
Like dreams!
You are so sweet
Like a song!
Like a fresh morning!
68.
My poems,
Before I knew you,
My dear,
Were just words
Like all words!
69.
I have forgotten all loves
Except yours.
It has penetrated deeply
Into my heart
And now flows
In my veins!
70.
Lovers
Are identified by their
Atrophy!
They have lived so much
In sadness and
Insomnia!
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71.
The cosmos is only
Visions for your eyes.
I am the night,
And you are the moon!
72.
My beloved enjoys
Perfect qualities.
I am entitled to excuses
In her love!
73.
Love is the source of life.
The happiness of all beings
Emanates from it!
74.
Oh, my friends!
My ear falls in love
With some,
The ear,
Sometimes is in love
Before the eye!
75.
Test me in love
With all that you wish!
Spare me the pain of
Rejection
Or the torment of
Separation!
76.
My passion dies
When I am with her.
It revives and is reborn
When I am no longer with her!
77.
I complained:
The ice melted!
The rock sympathized!
And the iron softened.
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78.
I love you like the full
Moon
Whose light flooded the
Fields
And the green summits!
79.
O Salma! I feel the fire!
In my blood
Flowing in my heart!
80.
If I had two hearts
I would live with one,
I would let the other
Suffer from your love!
81.
The language of words is blocked.
Our eyes have spoken,
The language of love!
82.
I complained to
You.
Accept my passion!
If I had done so to
A rock,
It would have sympathized and
Burned!
83.
I am drunk without even
Drinking a drop.
For speaking with the beloved
Is indeed intoxication!
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