1. Zainab cried bitterly at dawn,
Should she cut her rope, or be patient?

2. You have trifled in the past, though she was a dear
Friend to us, or was that not what I thought?

3. Strange that we would visit her in her joy
When with her, we were more secretive and amazed

4. In the caravan lies my body and soul hostage
To Zainab - I did not take them when I left

5. So she appeared, absence cannot make you forget her
In her absence, it set up in your heart a monument