1. She said she was sick, so I returned to her, but she was ungrateful
While she's the healthy one and the sick man is the returning one

2. By Allah, if all hearts were like hers
No father's heart would ache for his little child

3. She wrote to me not to visit her, so I abandoned her
So she would taste the flavor of abandonment, then I would return

4. What fault is it of mine if one in need
Knocks at her door, hopeful and loyal?

5. If my sin was in visiting, then know
That I am insistent on committing sins

6. Some people told me she
Is the one I suffer and struggle for

7. So I denied them, so their assumption would be
That I love the denying lover

8. Indeed, women envied your beautiful face
The beauty of faces bows to your beautiful face

9. The scarf hung on a branch adorned
With a breast that no eager hand could pluck

10. When I saw the night block my path
And the stagnant darkness tortured me

11. The star in the liver of the sky was as if
A blind man lost, with no guide before him

12. I called on the one whose sleep had banished sleepiness
From what I was suffering, while he lay prostrate

13. O you who cracked my heart with your aloofness
You are the sweet affliction, the everlasting one

14. You cast separation between my eyelids
So how long will I stay awake, o sleeper?

15. And how long will I weep while you laugh heedlessly
Turning from me, as I draw near in love and you distance yourself?

16. And how long will I call out to you in the darkness
I cry to you, complain and recite poetry?

17. I wish for my sleep then sleep in bliss
I am one whose wakefulness envies your sleep

18. Affliction befalls and passes from its people
But the affliction of your love increases every day

19. How can I hunt when one like me has no strength
A gazelle who dies when the hunter sees him?