1. Why make excuses - no family, no homeland
No companion, no cup, no abode

2. I want from my time that it convey to me
What time itself cannot convey

3. Face your fate indifferent
As long as your spirit accompanies your body

4. No joy lasts that brought you joy
Nor does past sorrow return to sadden you

5. Of what harmed the lovers that they
Succumbed yet knew not the world nor were aware

6. Their eyes wasted tears and their selves
Pursued the ugly deeming it beautiful

7. They bore your burdens, each female confidante
So each separation to me today is entrusted

8. There is no compensation for my love in your breasts
If I die longing though in it my price is not found

9. O you whose death was announced while distant
Each claimed what misfortune fancied was destined

10. How I have been killed and how I have died with you
Then I rose up - gone the grave and shroud

11. My burial was witnessed before their claims
By a group who then died before those who buried

12. Not all a man desires is attained
Winds blow not where ships wish to sail

13. I saw you dishonor a neighbor
With no rain on your pasture

14. The lot of each relative is boredom from you
And each lover's share is rancor

15. You grow angry at one given your care
Until he is punished with stinginess and favors

16. So separation left between me and you
A desert where eyes and ears are denied

17. You love traces after the gentle breeze
And ask the land about its vanishing hoofbeats

18. I befriend my patience and it honors me
I don't befriend patience and it cowers me

19. I won't stay for wealth that disgraces me
Nor enjoy what dishonors me being exposed

20. I lost sleep in your absence and then
My bitterness persisted and my tooth decayed

21. If I'm tested with a love like yours
Then I'll be tested with a like separation

22. I wore out fine garments without you
And excuse was replaced by tent and building

23. With the most noble Abu Musk whose munificence
Flooded Mudar and Yemen

24. If some of his promise is delayed
My hopes do not waver or weaken

25. He is faithful though I mentioned to him
Affection so he tests and tries it