1. Is there a funeral gathering you hold every year
Over embers you have kindled, yet you are not pleased

2. You find fault after excellence as if
It is a eulogy for the best of your people

3. You single out an oppressor over me and his gang
Yet my involvement with them was not the first to attempt

4. You pasture at the tails of valleys and below them
Are men who ward off wrongdoing from desire

5. And on a day of panic they ride through them knights
Who parry a stab in the intestines and kidneys

6. So if it were not for Zuheir sullying a blessing
I would have contended with Ka’b as long as I and he remained

7. My wedding procession came at night blaming me
And is closer in the dreams of women than sanity

8. She says, “I see Zaid who once was destitute
I swear by my life he has now become wealthy and acquired goods”

9. That is the grace of God during every absence
Bared one day when livelihoods are straitened