The stars of love are shining

Poet Ahlam bint Mansour Al-Humaid Al-Qahtani

Assistant Professor of Literature and Criticism at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University

Riyadh

Longing wound and kept my groans
And the night is attentive, choosing my displacement

And the language of sorrows settled in my liver
The one that chooses me on the night of the feast

I threw secrets to the sea that I was heavy with..
So the waves cradled my tremors and my sleeplessness

I know that the light of the full moon brings us together..
And provokes my details and my singing

I know that the stars of love are shining
Saying, here is my hand, O desire of the maidens

Come, as long as the longings are revealed
And time has not tired of my melodies and my repetition

Come, for the wind, O my wound, is favorable
And the palm trees dance in the vortex of the desert

These are my eyes as you loved their luster
And the memories that you hung around my neck

Tear the shirt that hid our feelings
And cover the soul, be my dawn and be my feast

I have longed.. and my silence has become scattered
O the disappointment of silence if my singing erupted..

I love.. and my love appeared like light
Rather the joy of the sun, rather my most beautiful appointments