I LOVE YOU is one of Charbel Baini's books translated from Arabic into English with introduction by Dr. Mostapha Helwe

You are the Beloved

 

You are the most beautiful Beloved

And I am captivated by your beauty

Proud... yet I kneel before your throne

From the abundance of your radiance, tell me:

What can I do with the sun?

She may retreat to her tower,

Sorrowful and writhing in anguish.

I desire you, my master,

Like a fragrant scent,

For love has wounded my heart,

And my vision is shattered.

I awaken... And within me is a longing,

To hear the voice of loved ones.

But your voice is drowned

In its silence... It offers no solace.

I loved in you a masculinity

I never imagined it would be so coquettish.

You have wearied me 

And given me only rejection,

And my heart aches.

You are the beginning of love,

And the end, and the return.

Take me to the embrace of bliss

Who has the right to enjoy it?

I come to you like a beautiful dream

What is the secret... why do you not yearn?

A rose sang of my beauty

Do you want me to plead?

Tell your eyes that I

refuse their gaze

No, love hasn't died within me

But I abstain

Speak to me words of joy

Something beautiful and beneficial

I beg you, speak them convincingly

The best speech is that which is convincing

You gifted me the star of temptation

Why... does it not shine?

If you say: My night is dark

The dawn always rises

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