1. O one who has departed yet my heart remains your dwelling
And though you're gone, my heart is still devoted to you

2. You were my life's companion, yet now in your absence
My imagination of you has faded and grown stingy

3. Since you left, I've blamed my heart, yet found no substitute
Nor anything that could console my blame

4. I've kept my love for you secret, so my tears must silently
Trickle down and go neglected

5. If you're surprised that our passion still persists
The beautiful are indulged for their beauty

6. I've seen your slender waist as a willow branch
Bending gracefully beneath the weight it holds

7. Your light step belies the heaviness you bear
For true beauty is enhanced by graceful contrasts

8. How much of Baghdad and the Tigris I still love
Though from them I departed, their love won't leave me

9. It wasn't my choice to part from you, but time
Brings days that alternate between justice and tyranny