The Story Will Never Die

To enter poetry is never a simple passage. One must possess a quiet boldness to cross its thresholds, and a patient ear to follow the tremor of language as it searches for its own truth. Yet this book invites such a journey, gently, insistently, and with luminous depth.
In this collection, Moroccan poet Mustapha Guarnate does not merely write verse; he carves spaces of breath and fire, weaving tenderness with ache, clarity with mystery. His poems rise from the intimate soil of the self and extend toward the vast horizons of human longing. Each piece is not only a composition, but an awakening, an encounter with fragility, resilience, and the secret pulse of existence.
To translate this work was not an act of linguistic transfer alone, but an act of presence. I walked alongside each line, listening to its heartbeat, honouring its silences, preserving its music where language allowed, and recreating its light where necessary. Poetry, after all, survives only when its soul remains intact.
I offer this translation with humility and affection, hoping that English-speaking readers may feel the same tremor the original verses stirred in me: that subtle shiver which tells us we are still capable of wonder, still porous to beauty, still inhabited by dream.