An Ode to Traveler, Colette Khoury

Translated by Mohammad Abdul-Karem Yousef

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Sweeter than love,
My hidden feelings for you,
Clearer .. and clearer than
The songs of passion,
The songs of love,
And the love preludes of infatuation songs.

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Like a warm sea breeze,
Like winter days,
Like a sincere outstretched hand,
In seasons of crying,
like sincerity…

I didn t decorate it,
Illusions did not contribute to weaving it,
My hidden feeling for you is
Real, soft and transparent,
Like a perfume boat
Gliding towards an island,
Like a sea of tenderness imprisoned by a princess, in her eyes, kept for the sad king.

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Like a fairy tale,
Told to an old man by a little girl,
Like an eternal candle in the dark,
My hidden feeling for you
Always lighting up
My heart and your home.


Yesterday,
When I was with you,
Up there in the sky,
In the place overlooking
On the city,
Sorrow was overflowing
From our hearts,
It dyes our meeting
With sad memories,
Over there in that place,
We were planning to defy time,
And tell each other secrets.

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But Damascus
Glittered at the foot of the mountain,
Folding for us
Its wounded history.
In turn,
We folded our misery stories...
And we made the future
On our way
And he revealed himself to reveal,
And Damascus swam in perfume and poetry.
Damascus sank in the sun
yesterday...
When I was with you,
And I glimpsed behind your smile tears ,
I gave you my joy and my hope.

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When I opened my chest to you,
There in the high place,
Rejuvenate your sober body,
A wave of longing swept your face,
As if to flood Damascus for me
With warmth and whisper…
Yesterday,
when I was with you
to say goodbye to you.

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Dear traveler,
I missed yesterday,
And the weather has turned up down.

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The weather was cloudy,
The sun went out,
And the world narrowed down on me,
And I searched for my city in the city.

In the mountain,
In the neighborhood,
There in the high place,
I found neither memory nor perfume
I did not find a sunshine that
Decorates my way
All of Damascus,
Hid away from my eyes.

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My friend
My friend
How greedy you are!
Was it necessary to travel?
Was it necessary….
Was it necessary to carry Damascus with you?

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