HABKA حبكه Kamilya Jubran et Sarah Murcia َ
avec Régis Huby : violon, Guillaume Roy : alto, Atsushi Sakaï : violoncelle abalone productions/l'autre distribution
SUITE NOMADE
(Traditional Bedouin poetry)
For seven years the world has been at war,
It's hard to earn a wage or find a chore.
Folks sell belongings, which to them were dear,
To buy some beans for coffee and some clothes to wear.
In their tents you'll hardly find some bread
And dust has veiled each face up to the head
O Rider on one who keeps a fast pace,
As if she'd been pricked and appears to be leaping;
O Rider if you want to urge him to speed,
My advice is : don't let the halter get freed.
Say : Last night how i felt in my heart a great pain,
For the chiefs aren't aware of what i would complain.
I sighed when i saw them, their faces so cool,
Making deals in the market, led on like a fool.
They told : "sell off your farmland, ther's someone who'll buy,
You'll get all you want, for the price of land's high.
Yes, spend on yourselves for one month , maybe more,
Spend freely on clothes for a few nights decor.
Your sale in the end is of roots you'll have torn,
You'll yet wander between Egypt and Sham till you're worn.
The land was spacious, yet narrow will be,
You'll find nowhere to rest between the hills and the sea
Yesterday night I slept unsound
Yet how few to whom I’d complain of my pain.
O how pleasing’s the cup one sips under palms
And the Mauser’s sound where the wadi bends
And lamb’s meat we’ve heaped on embers of broom
With friends in the shade of a booth, reclining
Near darkened-eyed lasses with fine even teeth ,
Their tattoos as green as the pasture of spring.
But today i’m trapped in the tangles of fate,
Imbibing, by draughts, purest poison.
Others are covered but we are exposed,
As jerboa-mice frolic within my abodes.
Though i’ve whitened the withers of mares, i’m despised;
Even those who wear the black shawl shun me.
And I, once a wolf that preys inside camps,
Who charged upon non-bearing mares like Jidéa,
Am now but a walker with shattered bones
Stumbling and fumbling midst boulders and stones.
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