I Will Apologize to Her
By Tarif Youssef Agha
I will apologize to her for each single day that passed
Without telling her “I adore you”
For each single hour that passed
Without me hugging her and her hugging me
Even for each single second in which
Her eyes were not reflected on the surface of my eyes
If time goes back and my heart has the chance to choose again
Then it will only debate between loving her or adoring her
If I am offered the whole world with every one in it
From the whole world, I will choose only her
Bless the creator for the charm she has
Bless the creator for the beauty given to her
If you look at her, you will be captured by her prettiness
If you approach her, you will get intoxicated by her scent
She doesn’t leave my mind because she lives in it
It doesn’t remember her because it doesn’t forget her for a moment
My heart doesn’t leave her because she is always sitting with it
It only walks away from her to prepare to meet her again
I was asked “who is that lover?”
I said “the one under whose sky I lived my younger years”
Syria, the cradle of history and the bride of countries
God bless her and bless her people
The land which is one of a kind is worn-out today
From bombardment, but also from the hypocrisy of the world
The ever-green land she use to have became bloody red today
The planes of death cultivate the land, and the blood of people to irrigate it
If, one day, humanity loses Syria
Then Humanity loses its origins and meaning
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A Poem translation
(Can be shared without permission)
By Tarif Youssef-Agha
An Expatriate Arab Syrian Writer & Poet
Member of the ‘Syrian Revolutionary Writers Assembly’
Friday October 10, 2014, Houston, Texas
http://sites.google.com/site/tarifspoetry