1. I am in love a flesh on hot coals when
I suffered both separation and union

2. With his sleeves rolled up from his wrists, wrapped
He sways between confusion and vanity

3. The beauty of his face when it appeared from under his garb
You see above the earth a full moon in the sky

4. He never extended his hand to cut off his aberrations
Except to show us the most wondrous things

5. A gazelle whose glances are more penetrating
Than a blade in his hands in the entrails

6. He assaults what does not think just as his blade assaults
The rational with his hand

7. So wonder at the butcher whose deeds his eyelids perform
While the impact of his deeds on people is like on a sheep

8. His face attracts eyes with the chisel
Of its shape whether from scent or lack thereof

9. Had the full moon in the sky not existed it would not have appeared
In its color with a trace of blueness