Nizar Qabbani: "Your Love" (From Arabic)

"Your Love"
By Nizar Qabbani
Translated by A.Z. Foreman
Click to hear me recite the original Arabic

My dear with the deep eyes, Your love
is extreme,
mystical
sacred.
Like birth and death, your love
is unrepeatable.

The Original:

حبك يا عميقة العينين
تطرف
تصوف
عبادة.
حبك مثل الموت والولادة
صعب بأن يعاد مرتين.