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By Yusra Al-Ayoubi
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Act Two Scene Three |
Act Two - Scene Three (Jamilah and Diana in the hostel) Jamilah You ask why I loved him I loved him for his eyes Brimful of love Blinded with tears For my tragic fate I loved him for The common things we share or denied I compared his solitary soul To men indifferent to fair or foul To love false or true He has not the mania Of owning things Nor the ambition of shallow wits Dreams of joys not yet attained Nor intoxicated with vainglory To bring the world Under law and rule Waiting impatiently For a new dawn I loved his smile Innocent as a child His front full of ripe opinions He dislikes trumpeters Who drum dissention Supporting one group Against another I loved him for his heart's pride Never to bow to oppression Or cede to pressure I loved him for his faith His truth, his openness His fervor, his equity I found with him stability He gave me more than liberty The love for liberty I wanted so fondly To repeat his example In my children The chain for eternal existence For immortality Diana I fall in love with the gallant grace Who danced with me in Delphic space Do you remember the masquerade Held by the university to the graduates? Music was intolerable Weirdly as if in dreams Ecstatic waters sighed for love Every thing was agreeable To stir the senses to impossible (back-drop of the stage to restore the atmosphere of Jita cavern) Diana Amid the choir of love He murmured to me "I knew you Queen of beauty You cannot hide Your eyes green pierced my heart That I never forget These eyes I distinguish From thousand eyes Your laurel crown Is meant for me Your sweet eyes Are meant for me Something sweet I felt As if hyptonized When he grasped my hand Welded by flame To the touch of his palm To Delphic oracle we swam Jamilah To Delphic oracle! Diana The boat was happy By his crazy hands When unmasked me, unmasked his face The prophetess of Delphy assured us My Zodiac and his harmonize I was created for him, he for me But the roaring water told me That I fell in love from the first glance My heard ceded To him to monopolize I feared to sink deeply in his love To drown in translucent dream He was anonyme to me But his love was a tempest That I never knew before The spirit of Ashtar Was hovering over the place Her perfume was piercing The incense like foam Entered my cells, my heart's core Who are you? I said trembling You'll know me soon When you accept to marry me I' ll come to you in your dreams You're created to follow me Your fancies will seek my arms My love my caresses I'm lucky to find at last A woman worthy of my love I knew him soon No body was his peer The gallant grace of my dreams Was a revolutionist My sect called him terrorist Conspiring with the enemy To flee him, to annihilate How can my family accept him How can his people accept me When their chorus similirate us To Delila and Samson? Jamilah I knew the man He is a friend to my fiancé They went together to the show When you were crowned The Queen of beauty Diana Really! I wondered how he knew me When I did not know him before But tell me dear Jamilah Is your fiancé The man whom you danced with In the Masquerade Who wore the suit and casque Of Napoleon Ponapart? Jamilah No that man I knew at once From the tone of his voice Familiar to me He was the poet, our professor Who is as old as my father Under the mask he could hide No one to recognize him Or discriminate I wish to visit him in his village To pay him for the lessons he gave me Do you like to accompany me? Diana Yes Jamilah, I wish that With all my heart |
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