Love Letter One Poem by Ahmad Shiddiqi

My wish, my all, my spirit
Only a few rhymes last night
And at that with your words
Not till early morning
Will my poems be definitely gone
What a restless chance of time
Why this deep despair when need screams
Can our life endure except through devotion
Through not drowning every hope from other love
Can we change the line
That you are not belong to me
Surely I not force
Look out into the beauties of garden and river
And relieving your soul with that which must be
Longing demands everything and that very justly
Thus it is to me beside you
And to your beside me
But you deny so easily that I have to fight to live for your sake and mine
If our love were finally blended
You would feel the misery of it
As little as I
This journey was a helpless one
Lacking boat and then chose another wave
But what an awful one
At the stage before the last
I was warned not to sail at storm
I was made fearful of a whirlpool
But that only pulled me in the more danger
And I was wrong
Yet I got some pleasure out of it
As I usually do when I face tragedies
We wished surely see each other tomorrow
Moreover I cannot share with you the thoughts
I have had during these last few hours of that terrible night
Touching my fragile life
If our dreams were always close together and took same way
I would have none of these
My soul is flooded of many memories to say to you
There are dream and reality
When I feel that word amounts to nothing at all
Smile around
Remain my true
My only legacy
My everything
As I am yours
And you are mine
The Heaven have to bless us

(dedicated to a wonderful singer, Nancy Ajram)