The following are a selection of poems about love originating from several different scrolls from the Middle Kingdom.
The original version of the following poem is not a rhyming piece of poetry, although, translating it into English allows certain verses to rhyme without changing the original translation!
I'm lost on a road although I know the way
Once I have not seen her for one night and one day
I defy not a wise man to understand my words
These feelings are beyond the wisdom of such
One day by the sun, one year in my head
How can I think if my woman is not there?
How can I laugh? How will I sing?
If nothing compares to the joy that she brings
You can bring me the fruits, the bread and the meat
For it's not that kind of food my body needs.
They can bring me the water, the wine and the beer
But this thirst all of those will hardly relief.
I cry when I laugh and I drink my tears
At every moment that she appears
Wonder and abundance that's what she brought
The fairest in the land / The one who owns me all.
I stair when I know the way or speak of her as I walk
Even time I forgot
And when I am sleeping
Well I am not...
The earth trembled as you passed by
Turning everything sacred as you walked
And you set your blue eyes upon me for the first time
speaking at me with the depth of the night
like a nightingale who doesn't need its wings to fly
what a bless it is to be worthy of your look
I have seen rain on the desert
and all impossible things coming true
All of my prayers carry your name
I wish to be pure so that I can desire you
Take me as you will
Your slave, your priest
Oh woman, Oh goddess
From a woman to a man
Tonight I will hold you my beloved
finally I will drink life from you lips
and wake up from this ever lasting sleep
yes finally my hands will hold yours
and forgive me brother If I never let go again
I wish I was a bird to fly to your shoulder and
sing all the words I never said to you
But do we need words? do we need a sound?
Touch my breast beloved I have been waiting for you
waiting to lay down over my destiny
In the deepest light you shall know my name
And the Fire between us will tell me yours
All things will remain
But tonight we will be born again.
Will you wait for me beloved there where you are?
Do you know what I feel for you?
Do you know there will never be another one?
Can you hear me beloved? Can you follow my steps?
I cannot see you but I feel you around me
Telling me that I am still beautiful
that your strength will never fail me
that your with me in my life
Can you hear me beloved?
This song is for you
but I cannot sing it loudly or the crops would run dry
and the wind would never blow
and this shining kingdom would become a shadow
for all eternity
Like the memory of you
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Published on: 10 June, 2005 (815 reads)
