معك

With You

1. How beautiful the world is when it is with you,
   O you for whom I left my worlds behind, to follow you!
2. Even the morning, when I miss you, turns to night,
   and night grows bright whenever it sees you rising¹ into view.
3. My pulse, my tears, my heart: all these are witnesses.
   Have mercy, now that longing has undone the man who's mad for you.
4. O goal of this heart worn down with suffering, I am
   your lover: quench, then, a heart that brought such joy to you.
5. And when you fall silent, I can hear my poem in you,
   and I forget the lines I had prepared to read to you.
6. I no longer ask my way in love:
   for every road has learned to follow you.
7. I've sworn to love none other in my world but you,
   and made my love-enraptured breast the spring camp² for you.
8. So soften, and surrender to my love,
   and give your hands to a lover who will never be untrue.
9. And lay your head upon this heart: to listen to you,
   it has forgotten every wound it ever knew.
10. If hardship on the road has worn you out,
    lay down here everything that has been hurting you.
11. And if you grieve, my soul will be a homeland
    to hold your sorrow close and stem the tears that stream from you.
12. I have asked my time for no chance but this:
    to wipe away the tears from your eyelids.
13. And rest assured that I was made a lover in thrall
    to guard your worth in life, and raise you high.
14. So be pampered like a princess, always, in the arms
    of an ardent lover who will never let your hopes fall through.

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