لو لم تكوني أنت في حياتي [Law Lam Takûni Anti Fî Hayâti] [English translation]

If you didn't exist in my life

I would have invented a woman just like you

Long as a sword

With a pure eye ...

Like the summer sky

I would have drawn her face on the papers

I would have engraved her voice on the papers

I would have made of her hair a farm of basil

and of her waist a poem

and of her mouth a glass of Arak* (An alchoholic drink)

I would have spent the whole night long

taking pictures shaking of the necklace

and the music of the throat

If you were not written in the board of destiny

I would have made you

out of one of the pictures

I would have borrowed a piece of the moon

And a handful of seashells ... and the lights of magic

I would have borrowed the sea, the travelers, and the travel*(itself)

I would have created the clouds my love

and danced with the rain

If you didn't exist in my life

There would be no air, water or trees

There would be no people on earth

If you didn't exist my love .... in fact

I would have worked for months .... and months

on the wide forehead ...

on the delicate mouth and the fingers ...

I would have created a woman just like you my love

with transparent hands

a woman whom I've thrown on her eyelashes ... two stars

a woman whom I've lighten on her bed two candles

But, who is like you my love? ...

Where is she ... where?