أين الصباح؟

أوتار مبعثرة
ترجمة إنجليزية
شارك:
أَيْنَ الصَّبَاحُ؟ وَمَا لِلْوَجْهِ مُنْطَفِئًاوَقَدْ عَهِدْتُكِ لِلْأَفْرَاحِ مِفْتَاحَا؟
مَا بَالُ غَيْمِ الْأَسَى مِنْ أَمْسِ يَتْبَعُنَاوَيَسْلُبُ الْقَلْبَ إِشْرَاقًا وَأَفْرَاحَا؟
إِنْ كَانَ مَزْحِيَ قَدْ آذَاكِ، مَعْذِرَةًهَا قَدْ أَتَيْتُ أَمُدُّ الْكَفَّ إِصْلَاحَا
لَا تَحْسَبِي أَنَّنِي أَرْضَى بِدَمْعَتِكُمْحَتَّى وَإِنْ كُنْتُ طُولَ الْعُمْرِ مَزَّاحَا

Where Is the Morning?

  1. Where is the morning1? Why is your face so dimmed,
    when I have always known you as the key to every joy?
  2. Why does the cloud of sorrow follow us from yesterday,
    and steal the heart's bright radiance and its joys away?
  3. If my joking has hurt you, forgive me: here I am,
    come to you, holding out my hand to make amends.
  4. Do not think I could be content to see you shed one tear2,
    even though I've been a joker all my days.

Notes

  1. The morning he asks for is her smile and the light of her face; it has not come because her face is clouded with hurt. The images of verse 2, a cloud that blots out the radiance, continue the picture of a day that has failed to dawn. ↩
  2. Damʿatikum, literally 'your tear', with a plural pronoun, the plural being used to address someone with respect and tenderness. The singular 'tear' suggests that even one tear of hers is more than he can bear. ↩

English translation prepared by artificial intelligence and reviewed against the Arabic for accuracy of meaning and rhetoric.