Breathless by Al Saddiq Al Raddi

Breathless

Your heart thumps - 

as if she were already 

at your door. 

Or - as if expecting her - 

all the birds in the midday sky 

arrive to clamour at your window. 

An age of patience. 

A forest of fluttering.

        ......................by Al Saddiq Al Raddi

The original version of the poem was in arabic. It was translated into the English version by 

Sarah Maguire 

This week's poem  is "Breathless" by the1969 born Sudanese poet Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, now granted asylum in UK. It's translated from the Arabic by Sarah Maguire.

'Breathless' is a tender love poem written in fragments, dotted with pauses, in which nature marries emotions. The choice of words show much more than an eager wait, it's a surety of the coming of love. The poem itself is the antonym of the Age of Patience, it is an ageless wait for the beloved.

The original version

لهاثْ

translated poem

by الصادق الرضي

كأنَّها تَقتربُ من البابِ

تسمعُ دقات قلبِكَ

أو 

كأنك في انتظارِها

تَحْضُرُ طيورُ الضُّحى 

وتَصْطَفُّ على النافذةْ

.........

ساعةٌ من الصَّبرِ

غابةٌ من الهديلِ والشقشقةْ.