Originally written in Arabic in December 2007 and preserved from my personal diary.
This English version is an adaptation created with the help of AI.
The poem was written long ago for someone I loved and hurt.
Over the years its meaning has grown wider — it now speaks to all the people I have loved, wounded, or lost along the way.
It remains, above all, an apology and a reminder that love can survive even where relationships cannot.
To you I apologize
for my madness and my vanity,
for all my seas and wandering far,
for every reckless storm I was.
Roumani Line 