To you, for we will walk together; never to come back and never to arrive — Wael
On the wings of a fleeting bird Come to you five songs of love Come to you, like tender feelings flowing from the loneliness of the diaspora To you, my beloved princess
First Song
Ye’re still ye shining, O star of the night in a silent prayer
But me? Here am I, Without me, I am
Yesterday, I asked a young girl about a road Startle, did she Answer, did she not
Aimless, endless roads walk do I End does the road, for a new road to start Crossroads after crossroads
The roads of my town have no destiny Where art ye, my darling? For together we walk never to come back and never to arrive?
Second Song
At our doorsteps two women had a fight What they said is just the heat of the moment
But one word, said it one to the other, baffled, left me
Said it, and I shivered like the smirk of the captives
Does my darling betray me? While I sparkle the star of our longing with my tears
Forgive me, my darling For the clique of women around us slipped into fiery habits of slander
And mortal art ye, my darling adoring the colored nights
Dismay, my darling, crossed my heart
Sightless, I became, from doubt In my luggage, I saw your old souvenir Our picture in a lake of moonlight In thy eyne prays a thousand Gods And like a diamond glows a face more tender than kindness of a lover
Feeble, I felt, not to doubt And ye, my darling, are beyond doubt Darling, I am writing for you to forgive me I have sinned even when I read the name of that road
Third Song
O Love, what do you still have more than what you bewildered me? Dwell home did I, without a drift
My darling, love came with a word from your lips
I let him inhabit me
It blossomed, my darling till he became youthful till he became ferocious like a God
And the room is not enough The walls are not enough
The walls, my darling, I shattered Carry him, did I; Carry me, did he to towns beyond time
Drunk, I made him; Drunk, he made me from the wine in shaken glasses
I could not flee a grip, flying me to the horizons of the truth
Translating Amal 