Naila

And I took her to the river
Thinking she was single
But she had a husband
The light of understanding
Makes me more cautious

Her thighs slipped away from me
Like startled fish
Half of them full of fire
Half of them full of cold

And that night I ran
The best of the paths
With such a fine filly
No reins and no stirrups

And I don’t want to say as a man
Things she told me
Because having a husband
She said she was single
When I took her to the river

It was a moonlit night
Naila cried before me
She told me tenderly
That she loved me madly

I asked her why she cried
And she answered me this way
My caresses are no good anymore
I’m no longer Naila for you

I’ve given myself to another man
I’m no longer Naila for you

Naila, tell me why you’re leaving
Silly, you know I love you
Come back to me
Don’t look for other paths
I forgive you because without your love
My heart breaks

I heard it yesterday
From the double-edged tongues
That you got married a month ago
And I stayed so calm

Anyone else in my place
Would have started to cry
I crossed my arms and said
That I didn’t care

No shooting myself
Or cursing you with maledictions
Or throwing my sighs
At the bars of your balconies

You got married, good luck
Live 100 years happy
And when your time comes
May God not hold it against you

If at the foot of the altars
You forgot my name
For the glory of my mother
I hold no grudge against you

But since your boyfriend is rich
I sell you this prophecy
By dawn
You’ll dream that you were mine

And you’ll remember the afternoon
When my lips kissed you

And you’ll wake up crying
And you’ll call yourself a coward!
Coward! Just like I’m telling you

Because the one who wasn’t
Neither your boyfriend, nor your husband
Nor your lover, was the one who loved you the most
And with that my love, with that, I have enough

And I don’t ask the heavens
To send you more punishment
Than to be sleeping with another
And dreaming of me