1. I disobeyed you though my breaths were departing from me,
So how can you wish for me while your disdain is cold?

2. I kept company with the sleepless until their clothes adorned me,
And the arrangement of their pearls was necklaces upon me.

3. I embrace brown-skinned women other than the pale idols,
And kiss white ones other than the deficit coquettes.

4. I have a need with the old and the hyenas
That my soul yearns for, so where is the helper?

5. Hopes neglect it while it is harmonious,
And death spends on it while death is stagnant.

6. When the sultriness entices our souls in it,
None will miss the opportunity except the gallant.

7. My desire is that you treat me gently in a dilemma,
For I am a sword that its sheath has protected from you.

8. A young man who wears resoluteness while patience is solemn,
And drinks the water of pardoning while forbearance is resentful.

9. And how many a day have I girded myself against adversity,
While the conversation of sublime things to souls is tempting.

10. No harm in the words of the slanderers, but rather
The talk of enemies to the sublime things is destructive.

11. In my heart is a passion no one I see can cure,
Unless all that cures the sick are habits.

12. It did not hurt me that I am devoid of wealth,
And the abundance of elevation is delightful and renewed to me.