Masterpieces of Nizar Qabbani

When will you know how much I love you, O man, for whom I would sell the world and everything in it
O you who challenged in my love for him cities as they are, and I will continue to challenge them
If you ask for the sea in your eyes, pour it out, or if you ask for the sun in your palms, throw it
I love you above the clouds I write it and to the birds and trees I tell it
I love you above the water I carve it, and I water the bunches and cups
I love you, Siva, I ask for my blood, O story, I don't know what to call it
I love you, try to help me, for whoever started the tragedy ends it
And whoever opens the doors closes them, and whoever lights fires extinguishes them
O you who smoke in silence and leave me in the sea, I lift my anchor and cast it
Don't you see me drowning in the sea of ​​love while the wave chews my hopes and throws them away
Come down a little bit from the eyelashes, man, he still kills my dreams and revives them
Stop playing the role of lovers with me and choosing words you don't mean
How many writings you invented that you will send and made me happy and roses that you will guide
And how much I went to a promise that does not exist, and how much I dreamed of dresses that I would buy
And how I wished for the dance to ask me and my arm confused me where to throw it
Come back to me, for the earth is standing still, as if it escaped from its seconds
Come back, after you, I don't hang a necklace, and I didn't touch my perfume in its pots
To whom is my beauty, to whom is the silk shawl, to whom is it my braids, which I have been raising for years?
Go back as you are, whether you are awake or rain, for what is my life if you are not in it?

- Nizar Qabbani