El leila ihsasi ghareeb (tonight)

Tonight I had this strange feeling.
I felt I was in love yet with no one to love.
After the people I loved disappointed me, I decided to love for the sake of love.
I thought it was safer and less risky.
No more longing, no more confusion and no more grief!
I feel my heart is a sky hosting the birds of my emotions. Tonight, my feelings were so different, even my poems were special.
Yet your vision refuses to leave me.
It has been more gentle and compassionate than you were. Where are you sweetheart?
Why do you keep hiding from me?
My heart was your home yet yours was my exile.