Love Letter Two Poem by Ahmad Shiddiqi

Though still in dream
My images go out to you
My Innocent Beloved
Forever happily
Then sadly
Searching to feel whether or not fate will capture us
I can continue to live only together with you or not at all
Yes, I am resolved to wander so long away from you
Until I can drown into your very heart
And say that I am really at paradise with you
And can present my love irresistible in you into the garden of angels
Yes, unhappily it must be so
You will be the more aware since you feel my longing to you
No one else can ever have my heart
Why must human be divided from a woman whom a man so adores
And yet my life in this world is now a disastrous life
Your love makes me at once the happiest and the saddest of lover
At my age I need a serene life
Can that be so in our relation?
My angel, I have just been told that the poems read every day and every night
Therefore I must close at once so that you may listen to those words for sure
Be patience, only by a better understanding of our existence
So we can get our purpose to live and to love together
Be calm
Love me
Now
Tomorrow
What tearful hope for you
You
My life
My love
My inspiration
Oh continue to miss me
Never forget the most honest heart of mine
Ever joy
Ever relief
Ever ours

(dedicated to a beautiful singer, Nawal Al Zoghbi)