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أُحِبُّكِ كِلْمَةٌ تَحْوِي شُعُورِيبِمَا فَوْقَ الْحُرُوفِ أَوِ السُّطُورِ
إِذَا مَا قُلْتُهَا انْتَفَضَتْ بِقَلْبِيعَصَافِيرٌ تُرَفْرِفُ فِي الْأَثِيرِ
وَفِي جِسْمِي مَسَامَاتِي اقْشَعَرَّتْوَتُفْصِحُ عَنْ مَعَانِي اللَّاشُعُورِ
وَمَا أَفْصَحْتُ فِي شِعْرِي وَنَثْرِيسِوَى عَنْ حُسْنِكِ الزَّاهِي الْمُثِيرِ
دَعَانِي حُسْنُكِ الزَّاهِي فَلَبَّىفُؤَادِي حَاضِنًا بَدْرَ الْبُدُورِ
وَأَسْكَرَهُ شَذَاكِ وَلَمْ يُعَاقِرْبِدُنْيَاهُ سِوَاهُ مِنَ الْخُمُورِ
وَنَفْحُكِ إِذْ يَنُثُّ رَذَاذَ عِطْرٍبِقَلْبِي فَهْوَ مِنْ أَزْكَى الْعُطُورِ
«أُحِبُّكِ» قَوْلَةٌ حَسُنَتْ مَذَاقًاأُكَرِّرُهَا عَلَى مَرِّ الدُّهُورِ
فَهَلْ مَعْنَاهُ أَوْصَلَهُ فُؤَادِيلِقَلْبِكِ أَمْ تَعَرْقَلَ فِي الْمُرُورِ؟

I Love You

  1. “I love you” is a word1 that holds my feeling
    in what lies beyond the letters, beyond the lines.
  2. Whenever I say it, sparrows in my heart
    start up and flutter through the upper sky.
  3. The pores throughout my body shiver, and give voice
    to meanings that the unconscious hides.
  4. In all my verse and prose I’ve given voice
    to your radiant, stirring beauty, and nothing beside.
  5. Your radiant beauty called, and my heart answered2,
    clasping the full moon of all full moons to its side.
  6. Your fragrance made it drunk; and in its world
    it had never been given to any other wine.
  7. And your breath, when it scatters a spray of scent
    within my heart, is of all perfumes the most pure and fine.
  8. “I love you” is a saying sweet to the taste;
    I’ll say it again and again through all of time.
  9. So did my heart carry its meaning through
    to your heart? Or was it held up along the line?

Notes

  1. In Arabic ‘I love you’ is a single word, uḥibbuki, which is why the poet can call it ‘a word’ (kalima). ↩
  2. Labbā means to answer a call with labbayk, ‘here I am at your service’, the cry of pilgrims answering God’s summons to Mecca. The heart responds to her beauty as a pilgrim to the call. ↩

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