1. What concerns me, O love, if
The passion died in your heart

2. Or you had neglected me
In an inattentive moment of yours

3. Or you thought I was the source
Of your misfortunes in your country

4. In your depths or your plateau
In your Levant or your Egypt

5. In your East or your West
In your sea or your river

6. In your words or your silence
In your night or your morning

7. I will keep dreaming as long as I live
Of a kiss from your lips

8. What saddened me, O love, was that
I wasted my life waiting

9. For your return in your specter
In your poetry or your prose

10. In your sculpture or your painting
In your sun or your shade

11. In your cold or your summer
I will keep dreaming as long as I live

12. Of your return at dawn
How much it pained me, O love, that

13. I indulged in your land
And forgot my night, then went

14. To think of your night
Though my night would not have been long

15. Had it not been for your estrangement
And I cursed a captivity that, without it,

16. I would have come to your aid
And spent my life excelling

17. In medicine that heals your wound
I will keep dreaming as long as I live

18. Of a demise for your sake
What concerned me, O love, that

19. I named myself your slave
The cross of Jesus or the crescent

20. On your forehead?
The imams of the house or the

21. Companions your heart chose?!
It did not concern me whatever you do

22. For no matter what, I love you
It is said that flowers draw

23. Their fragrance from your scent
And poetry derives rhythms

24. From tears of your poetry
And the lute learns melodies

25. To independently mimic your tune
And cool water drips

26. From your damp hair
And the soul finds relief in gulps

27. Poured by your beauty
And the rose awaits daylight

28. To win your palm
I will keep dreaming as long as I live

29. Of a rose from your cheek
Do you blame me, O love, that

30. I turn away from others?!
It was not my fault that I was hit

31. By a stab from your spear
The spear being your eyes and the wounds

32. Your wounds in your heart
And the bleeding your bleeding and the blood

33. Your tears in your eyes
Or was it a stray spear

34. Or your aimed shot?
Woe to you for shedding blood

35. When you shot no one but yourself
I wish you had called out before

36. Heading out to your hunt
I would have avoided you and avoided

37. Misfortune on your road
I will keep dreaming as long as I live

38. Of a nap in your embrace
That “when” pains me -

39. When will you return to your cradle?!
Come and fear not the mountains

40. For they are your people
Come and fear not the borders

41. For they are your making
Did you saddle your steed

42. Or is it your patience holding you back?
Had you known how much my patience

43. Endured your patience
Had you known how much I dreamed

44. That I was in your captivity
I will keep dreaming as long as I live

45. That I am in your house