1. Who will be just to me against a passionate lover
Who hovers around the antelope, rather craves and devours it

2. With a strong and healthy body I was deprived of its health
My eyelids are sick and their sickness makes me sick

3. I kiss the cheeks as if the cheeks were his mouth
And I twist my hand on the rod thinking it was his body so I embraced it

4. The eyes of that one wounded my liver
His blood dripped on my cheeks from the wound

5. His black hair made me dark and oppressed me
His oppression did not wrong me nor was he unjust

6. My situation and his are strange
He always humiliates me while being shy

7. They told me to forget him but I said to them
Pour on my companion and never deny him

8. If it were not for passionate eyes that fall in love
Neither would Shu'ayb serve nor would his sheep graze

9. Nor would David covet a ewe's beauty
Until he lost his judgement

10. Oh God between me and the one whose mouth
Is like the cornerstone, everyone longs to touch it