1. Illuminate the place of the full moon if the full moon sets
And take the place of the sun if the dawn is delayed

2. For you have the radiant sun’s light
Though not its smile and lips

3. Indeed, the light of sun and moon belongs to you
Neither sun nor moon bore your eyes

4. The shining dawn and full moon belong to you
Not their twinkling and throat

5. Whence comes the radiant sun at dawn
With languid eyes, a moment of weakness?

6. And when did it guide Layla when she blinked
With eyes of startled desert deer?

7. Layla smiles from behind her veil as if
Anemones smiling at the ill

8. Her skin, had it met a mote, the mote
Would have chosen it over its own path

9. When she walks, her steps draw near
To the nearest, clearest space, awed

10. Sickly in her charm, she fears
For her hips, cinched at the waist

11. What caring mother of suckling babes
Watches for a crawling babe's joints to firm?

12. With the spring's blossoms she bloomed,
Its clouds abundant showers, gentle rain

13. We stood at Layla’s ruins one evening,
Bereft of joy, forlorn, cloaked in gloom.

14. A dewy dawn breaks with her,
Another place of return roars its warning.

15. Her breeze reached the garden’s blossoms
Her lights and the leaves fluttered green.

16. The eve’s early scents mingled
With shades of darkness, colors murky.

17. My roving eyes move between traces
Of signs, though solitude has departed.

18. With a glance back at me, more beautiful than Layla's,
When the journey pulled her away.

19. Her eyes brimming as if
Pearls cascaded from her lashes.

20. I saw only a place I barely discerned,
What memory can do when it departs.

21. It lifted the withered eyes and faces,
Covered in dust, bleary.

22. I remain steadfast in patience with what
Befalls me, but love leaves me no patience.