IFNI

Englische Übersetzung

It’s so quiet as though she were alone,
she can’t fall asleep, she’s still wide awake.
Her pulse vibrates, she dreams her father is in
CHEZ SAID looking for something she doesn’t want.

Dalila, he says and looks at her,
loses his ground but pulls through.
You go to him, you need what he’ll give you.
He reaches for her hand:

IFNI, IFNI, touch her…
My smala expects me to do what
you’ll do to her tonight.

It is so quiet.
She’s counting time.
Her pulse vibrates,
she’s shivering with heat, can hardly see.
Is Sidi Ifni there?

Dalila, someone whispers to her from close to,
she can’t fall asleep, she’s losing her ground.
Mist is rising – night gradually comes to life,
her hands are still twitching,
she no longer knows what happened.

IFNI, IFNI, touch me…