A Worldly Sudanese..

A Worldly Sudanese..
A Sudanese with a Global core.. Realizing how the taste marvelously varies across Countries, Continents, Religions and Cultures.. Believing we have to share it.. Denouncing the 2011 Sudanese Partition..

Sunday, October 19, 2025

The Promise

 

وعدتُكِ أن أُغلقَ بابَ الهوى،
فإذا بي أفتحُ ألفَ نافذةٍ نحوكِ،
تتسلّلُ صورتكِ بينَ الحروف،
وتُعيدُ لي الليلَ عاشقًا مجنونًا بكِ.
كم مرةً قلتُ: انتهى الأمرُ…!
فأجابتني نبضاتُ قلبي: كاذبٌ أنتَ،
إنها تسكنُكِ كما يسكنُ العطرُ وردتَه،
وكيفَ يعيشُ وردٌ بلا نَفَسِ الشذى؟
أحبكِ… لا قولًا بل قدَرًا،
لا وعدًا بل عبادةً في محرابِ الغياب،
فكلُّ لحظةٍ منكِ صلاة،
وكلُّ بُعدٍ… قيامٌ على جمرِ الانتظار.

I promised you I'd close the door of love,
but instead I opened a thousand windows toward you.
Your image creeps between the letters,
and brings back to me the night, a lover madly in love with you.
How many times have I said: It's over...!
And my heartbeats answered: You're a liar.
It inhabits you as perfume inhabits its rose.
How can a rose live without the scent of fragrance?
I love you... not in words, but by fate.
Not as a promise, but as worship in the sanctuary of absence.
Every moment of you is a prayer,
And every separation... is standing on the embers of waiting.

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