حاتم عبدالهادي السيد يكتب :صمت ممتد للعالم الحزين

A Silence Stretching to the
Melancholic World

Hatem abd elhady elsaid

Forty years so far, o world,
I’ve been searching for you;
and I am wondering
if you are searching, too.
I see you growling
in the wilderness of silence and gloom
like a wolf roaming the city streets
on a winter’s night, so bitterly cold.
The motionless wayfarer said:
you are all alone in your space,
destined towards life;
your shore: two cities—
one for darkness, the other for love.
At the split of a river of bliss you dwell,
yet washing us over with melancholy and grief.
You’re ever the same—always fading away
and in your intoxication,
across the cosmic oceans, I sway
yearning for a safe bank—
safety, safety !!
O world, the limitless,
the ever close, forever distant—
there you linger.

– Translated by Huda Ismail
هدى إسماعيل

مترجمة مصرية — طالبة بقسم الترجمة – كلية الآداب – جامعة السويس – مصر