شعر فاروق جويدة – دعيني أقاوم شوقي إليك

Poem Translation:

Permit me, Love, to flee your burning flame,
Escape you—even in thought, in name.
For long I’ve loved a phantom, vague and wide,
A dream that ever danced, then dared to hide.
You are the light that once my path did guide—
Yet part of that same dark in which I slide.
Let me resist this longing that prevails,
For I am weary of these castles built on gales.

Poem Explanation:

In this poem, Farouk Gouida voices the pain of loving a dream—a person or ideal that remains forever out of reach. He wants to resist this longing, not because he doesn’t care, but because he’s grown tired of being misled by hope. He confesses that the beloved once represented guidance, but that even this guiding light led him astray. The poem ends on a metaphor that captures fragility—”palaces of sand”—representing hopes that collapse with the slightest disturbance. The tone is bittersweet, introspective, and quietly mournful.