1. The specter of you, O Lamiya, has visited
From the nations, a welcome guest whose eyes did not sleep

2. Secretly tearing through the armor of the night
And cutting through the desert sands fluttering on foot

3. I would ransom him from the night visitor whom my heart held
If not for your protection that spared me from pain

4. The imagination visited yearning, wandering, so delight me
It wanted more than a mere vision in the domain of dreams

5. Yearnings of passion roused in my heart
Tears for you that turned into blood

6. And bargained with my sighs and their agony
So it feared the blaze of fervent love

7. So it came seeking though if not for longing carrying it
It would not have traveled from Na’man’s decline to the banner

8. If only you learned tenderness from it, then if
You visited me, you would visit in the darkness of my temple

9. O charm of life, if not for love my eyes would not lose sleep
And if not for a vision of you I would not slumber

10. This is my discourse, keep me company or abandon me
For you know what has befallen me in love, so arbitrate