1. I will pursue desire
To its farthest reaches

2. Until a group says
Its edges have softened

3. My resolve is not weakened, Yahya
By you. At times I die from looking

4. And at others, I live
I want no news

5. O unique in things
A love that makes sorrow intimate

6. With what makes it intimate
Wadi Al-Aqeeq overflows

7. On its conduit
Who will show me a face that combines

8. The beauties of forms
That would suffice instead of the rising

9. Of the moon
A smile that has left

10. No patience for one showing patience
Like good rain that poured down

11. And stayed watering it
A mouth like spilled perfume

12. Luminous in it
My tears flowed and spoke

13. Of some of what I feel
While people slept, wakeful was I

14. In insomnia, alone, a star
Weak, bewildered, isolated

15. Displaying the weakness of strength
In its slowness

16. Like a drowning man seeking
What does not save him

17. A face like a crescent moon
Appearing on a branch

18. Adorned with beauty
And the gift of charm

19. At that point say to him from me
We will not be satisfied with less

20. Than my description and likeness
He wants to be a friend to me

21. Who patiently bears my wanderings