1. O my people, for how long will this estrangement last
And my patience in love and avoiding it

2. Who, if the heart was given a choice one day
Between it longing and drinking alcohol

3. In poisons that cause blisters from their heat
On the skin of its Lord in inflammation

4. It would prefer to the heart and desire
More than the honeycomb the gray clouds rain

5. Woven in youth and the blowing of north winds
With no motes in it by the heads of twigs

6. Before meeting it a desolate exile
Raging at the meeting and clearest of veils

7. And indeed I said when I stood sadly
With my tears copiously pouring down

8. O palace of terraces and gardens
Highest of palaces between the hills

9. May God adorn you with buildings
And may the King protect you from ruin

10. Are you higher in glory or did you become after me
Everything is destined for loss

11. We see it and its people did not settle
Inhabited plentifully by the fertile of loins

12. No - by the Lord of those glorifying in throngs
And those wailing after them with gravel

13. The heart does not turn from you in affection
Ever, or the color of the raven changes

14. What the wild untamed horse carried
With the striking of the lame the red domes