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2018-12-01

What frenzy is this? / Cén buile é seo?

Daem phuit chi gaemits myaen nazar
yoot matsar kyah?
mei rov labith lol shahar
yoot matsar kyah?

My gaze has been silenced
What frenzy is this?
I lost the city of love I’d found,
What frenzy is this?

M’amharc ina thost
Cén buile é seo?
Chailleas cathair an ghrá
Cén buile é seo?

Poozai karaan aes gaemits vaens me tsayen
aeyov ti mei ma vuch na sahar
yoot matsar kyah?
  
I worshiped shadows all my life
Did I alone miss
the arrival of the dawn
What frenzy is this?

Scáileanna a d’adhair mé ar feadh mo shaoil
An mise amháin a chaill
Teacht na camhaoire?
Cén buile é seo?


Mei khoon mailith sheesha patyan aaene baneyvim
aeseena panin paana khabar
yoot matsar kyah?

Smearas an ghloine le fuil
Chun scátháin a chruthú
M’íomhá féin – strainséir
Cén buile é seo?


I smeared the glass with blood
to make mirrors
My image – a stranger
What frenzy is this?

Mei togh na parun kya chu leekhit posh deewaran
kael gaem tavay laen ashar
yoot matsar kyah?

Ní fhéadfainn na litreacha a léamh
Ar na fallaí bláthbhreaca
Ba bhalbh iad línte na cinniúna
Cén buile é seo?

I couldn’t read
the writing on floral walls
my lines of fate turned mute
What frenzy is this?

Sukrath me ahsaan karith gav ne, galath cha?
tyem myan hisukh chav na zahar
yoot matsar kyah?

Ní haon ghar a dhein Sócraitéas dom
Ní ceart é a rá, ach
Níor ól sé mo sciarsa den nimh
Cén buile é seo?

Socrates did me no favour in leaving
I shouldn’t be saying this, but
He didn’t drink my share of poison
What frenzy is this?

Mei rov labith lol shahar
yoot matsar kyah?
daem phuit chi gaemits myaen nazar
yoot matsar kyah?

Chailleas cathair an ghrá
Cén buile é seo
M’amharc ina thost
Cén buile é seo?

I’ve lost the city of love I’d found,
What frenzy is this
My gaze has been silenced
What frenzy is this?

Zarif Ahmed

https://kashmirfilm.wordpress.com/from-the-film/poets/what-frenzy-is-this/