1. Do you see the lightning when it rises high
Over the ruins of a home left desolate?

2. Why do you covet when you glimpse a flash
That flickers over their relics and illuminates?

3. How an errant breeze incites you,
That drifts away while musk's perfume comes!

4. Don't be deceived - it's healing is not for you,
You whose love-sick state for Layla worsened!

5. Why do they blame me for the lovers' sins?
Is it not just Layla and passion that misled me?

6. When asked how long this agony, I told them:
I knew not what agony was ere she came to be!

7. Away, you blamer - for you're not the first
Seeker of what the passionate cannot attain!

8. Think not your blame gives you cause -
God knows I'm innocent of what they maintain!