1. Rise and quench my thirst, oh temptation of time,
A blond that breaks the thorn of sadness.

2. Direct her eyelids towards me, wet
With kohl and charm.

3. If I am absent from my Laila and my Samaar,
It is because you are in my secret and in my frankness.

4. Oh my writing teacher, I shook its firmness,
As if I shook a branch of it like a palm tree.

5. A moon appeared walking with a branch,
Oh you who saw a moon on a branch.

6. I have a year that is one day in you,
And I see you in me, so I spent years.

7. So get for me a tortured soul,
For you are that soul in the body.

8. I am a precious pearl, traders bid high for me,
You made me cheap, oh you the highest bid!

9. My heart today is hostage to you,
Oh you whose heart is hostage in me.

10. Oh my leader, willingly without a bridle,
No harm if you release me from my bridle.

11. Aiming, he threw me while in madness,
Until I make my fighter share my madness.

12. No eye has seen me, no ear has heard
Anything more vivid than me in time.