Habbaitak Bissayf (I loved you in summer)

In the cold days

in winter

when the sidewalk is a lake

and the street is drowned

this girl has come

from her old house to await him.

He who had told her to wait

but he has gone away

and forgotten

and she withers away

in winter.

I have loved you in summertime

I have loved you in winter

I awaited you in summertime

I awaited you in winter

Your eyes are summer

My eyes are winter

and our rendezvous my love

is beyond summer and beyond winter.

The strange one passed by

and gave me a message

my lover had written

with his tears

1 opened the message

whose letters were lost

and days passed

years estranged us

while winter had erased

the letters of the message.