1. Who will sympathize that I'm alone with no companion?
None alive but God, no jinn or human.

2. The antelopes are gone, time has taken them.
We see them no more, only these frail huts.

3. How can a soul not grow base
Whose body is a vessel of nothing but filth?

4. I've seen the young men of my tribe, aloof and wary.
The youth who do not marry grow perverse.

5. I walked the paths of glory then said to them,
"Follow me," but when the heights came in view they slunk away.