لا تخجلي

لا تفطميني عن هواك حبيبتي
ترجمة إنجليزية
شارك:
حَبِيبَتِي لَا تَخْجَلِي مِنِّي فَلَاأُحِبُّ فِي عَيْنَيْكِ ذَا الْخَجَلَا
خَجَلُ الْهَوَى جُبْنٌ وَيُفْقِدُ مُهْجَتِيطَعْمَ السَّنَى وَالشَّوْقَ وَالْأَمَلَا
خَجَلُ الْهَوَى مَلَلٌ لَدَيَّ وَمَنْ تُرَىيَهْوَى وَيَرْغَبُ أَنْ يَرَى الْمَلَلَا
ثُورِي عَلَى وَجْهِي بِحُبِّكِ مِثْلَمَاتَدْوِي الرُّعُودُ إِذَا الْحَيَا هَطَلَا
بَلْ وَاجِهِي عُنْفِي بِعُنْفٍ مِثْلِهِوَصَرَاحَتِي بِصَرَاحَةٍ مَثَلَا
لَا تُفْصِحِي لِسِوَايَ مَا تُخْفِينَهُمِنْ حُبِّ قَلْبِكِ وَاطْرَحِي الْوَجَلَا
قُولِي بِكُلِّ جَرَاءَةٍ: إِنِّي أُحِبْــبُكَ، خَافِقِي بِسِوَاكَ مَا انْشَغَلَا
بُوحِي بِوَجْدِكِ لِلَّذِي تَهْوَيْنَهُكَمْ مِنْ هَوًى بِالْكَتْمِ قَدْ قُتِلَا
إِيَّاكِ إِنْ فُتِحَ الطَّرِيقُ بِكِلْمَةٍأَنْ تَسْكُتِي كَيْ تُغْلِقِي السُّبُلَا
سِيرِي رُوَيْدًا فِي الدُّرُوبِ وَنَقِّلِيخَطْوَ الْهَوَى حَيْثُ الْهَوَى انْتَقَلَا

ممباسا ـ كينيا
1992م

Do Not Be Shy

  1. My love, don’t be so shy with me: I do not love
    the shyness that I see within your eyes.
  2. Shyness in love is cowardice: it robs my heart
    of longing and of hope, and of the taste of light.
  3. Shyness in love, to me, is tedium; and who, do you suppose,
    would love, and yet desire to have such tedium in sight?
  4. Storm at my face1 with all your love, the way the thunder roars
    when life-bestowing rain2 pours down with all its might.
  5. No, meet my vehemence with vehemence like mine,
    my candour with a candour just as forthright.
  6. Disclose to no one else the love your heart
    keeps hidden, and put all your fear to flight.
  7. Say it with all your daring: “I love
    you; my heart has beaten for no one but you.”
  8. Declare your passion to the one you love: how many loves
    have died of being kept from sight!
  9. Beware, when just one word has opened up the road,
    of falling silent, shutting every pathway tight.
  10. Walk gently down the paths, and let love’s footsteps move
    to wherever love itself has moved.

Mombasa, Kenya, 1992

Notes

  1. Thūrī ʿalā wajhī, literally ‘rise up against my face’: the verb thāra is used of a storm breaking, a sea surging and a people rising in revolt. The lover asks not for a timid confession but for an open outburst, face to face. ↩
  2. Al-ḥayā is the rain that revives the earth. The same word, with its final hamza dropped as poets often do, is al-ḥayāʾ, ‘shyness, modesty’, the very thing the poem argues against. The simile thus carries a hidden turn (tawriya): when the rain, or the modesty, breaks, let it break with thunder, not in silence. ↩

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