1. O lightning, zigzag and flash
away from me, with those slender maidens, flash!

2. And beg those gentle hills for rain,
that quenches the tale of love from my eyelids.

3. If you are thirsty in a land whose soil
my eyelids said: This is plentiful for me.

4. Stop, asking my heart in her land,
and repeating what I said, O brother!

5. In it I crave the sweetest water,
O slender, delicate, and beautiful one.

6. Though it pleases him that after him
I have become emaciated in my robe.

7. Woe to him who brings him what pleased me
when the house pulled me far from him.

8. My love for him has become mocking
for Qays and Ghaylan of Mayya.

9. He was unfaithful, so all the land after him
became constricted, and my stratagems failed me.

10. May you two never despair in love
like me, abandoned, O friends!

11. If you detain your two companions for an hour
at the slope of Huzwa or in the valley of Usha.

12. And spread the news I have concealed
among tents folded at Tay.

13. Blame is not for love when love
twisting the faith of its lover.

14. My heart, though it has come to stay with him,
why does it torment me with estrangement?

15. My excessive love for him has led me astray.
If I say it is not that, then what misguidance!