poetry · Issue No. 2, February 1949 · p. 33
If I Could
لو استطيع · ايليا ابو ماضي
If I could, I would pour my soul
as wine into her cup,
so that, if distance came between me and her covert,
and she feigned ignorance of me, or denied me before her companions,
I would peer out from her eyelids
and run with her breaths.
لو استطيع سكبت رو
حي خمرة في كاسها
حتى اذا حال النوى بيني وبين كناسها
وتجاهلت او انكرت امري لدى جلاسها
اطللت من اجفانها
وجربت مع انفاسها
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