1. Oh eye, spare me your grief
From the vicissitudes of time and its bitterness

2. Do not let tears remain after enduring like stone
For time has tasked you to overflow

3. So overflow with tears for one so noble
Whom events have tossed, do not stint

4. For after a knight like Sulaym, I've become
One who airs his heartache through verse

5. I ask of every dissolved passion
Ruined by time like gnawed bone

6. I wake not sensing a whole body
Nor crooked, sickly and weak

7. But I stay up, remembering Sulaym
Choking on chains of rushing tears

8. I recall him when the earth grows still
No glimmer dancing, no sparks flashing

9. So who can stand for war, when it's like a tablet
And its inflamers rise up to unfurl?

10. Horses immersed in each other
Their beauty pillars holding aloft the valley

11. When the people war, Tubal leads them
Thus frankincense is sought like debts

12. With each sharpened, blazing, straight sword
Polished and keen, ready to slash