یاد یک روز

We were asleep, and the ray of sunlight

خفته بودیم و شعاع آفتاب

crept softly over us from head to toe.

بر سراپامان بنرمی میخزید

Upon the veranda's tiles, the hand of light

روی کشی های ایوان دست نور

swiftly drew our shadows.

سایه هامان را شتابان میکشید

The colourful wave of the horizon had no end.

موج رنگین افق پایان نداشت

The sky was filled with the fragrance of day.

آسمان از عطر روز آکنده بود

Around us, it was as though the silk of clouds

گرد ما گویی حریر ابرها

had cast a blue, morning-glory-coloured curtain.

پرده ای نیلوفری افکنده بود

“I love you,” silent and weary of soul,

دوستت دارم خموش خسته جان

slipped once more across my lips.

باز هم لغزید بر لبهای من

But it was as though, in the silence of midday,

لیک گویی در سکوت نیمروز

my voice disappeared in its futility.

گم شد از بیحاصلی آوای من

I cried, “Sun… O sun,

ناله کردم : آفتاب ...ای آفتاب

shine no longer upon a withered flower.”

بر گل خشکیده ای دیگر متاب

We were thirsty, and he deceived us

تشنه لب بودیم و او ما را فریفت

like a mirage in the desert of life.

در کویر زندگانی چون سراب

Into the lines of his face there suddenly crept

در خطوط چهره اش نا گه خزید

the shadows of his hidden longing.

سایه های حسرت پنهان او

The sun seized my hair.

چنگ زد خورشید بر گیسوی من

The sky slipped into his eyes.

آسمان لغزید در چشمان او

Ah… I wish that moment had had no ending.

آه ... کاش آن لحظه پایانی نداشت

We would have vanished and been laid bare in one another's sorrow.

در غم هم محو و رسوا میشدیم

I wish we had mingled with the sun.

کاش با خورشید می آمیختیم

I wish we had taken on the colour of the horizons.

کاش همرنگ افقها می شدیم