1. No more is there in Aleppo a time that has passed for me
Where morning is not like evening in its likeness

2. The pale daylight in its expanses is for me
Like the darkness of drawn-out night time

3. Among a group who cursed the ancients and did not quench their thirst
In the direction of the clouds, and a group who cursed Ali

4. A people whose bonds with their men are dissolved
Forever, while the bond with their women is not untied

5. Of every alluring slender beauty
The saliva of youth is like a doll in a temple

6. The sin of her steps she bends her neck
Playfully mocking the withered decrepit one

7. And if she's mounted by a rider she dances with him
The dance of a professional with a hasty rider

8. And disjointed in limbs without a cure for his illness
As the illness has overcome the lowest part

9. He continues plucking the hair of his cheeks until
His cheeks have become like a palm tree

10. And I will express the strangeness of their attributes
Resuming what is past in the future

11. With necklaces never recited in a gathering
Except at the simplemindedness of the hasty one

12. Poetry that is chopped by shoes that deceive
The blind and which buzzes around scabbed wounds