1. You yearn for Salma in her homeland’s desolation
While you had power over her with abodes replete

2. You alight in valleys verdant, shaded, secluded
Seeking Salma, though she is distant and remote

3. How can you wish for her when she’s out of reach
Now dwelling with ill-omened clans you disdote

4. My foes wish for my blood or shackled wrists
My arms wrenched back, their hatred never wrote

5. My camel lies there, felled upon the sand
When horns clash, to him falls the first note

6. As if the thunder’s sisters, lightning’s wail
Quiet the lair, their cries the rocksmote

7. When we slow down and our steeds draw back
What’s destined happens, affairs twist and turn

8. My fortitude and patience will show to you
When things go wrong and hopes begin to spurn

9. I forget not dear ones though forget I might
Even if my abode neighbors no soul, no concern

10. Maybe one day you’ll regret how you pained me
When you were bitter and to wound me you yearned

11. Estrange me not, if to them you never confessed
For I know nothing of you but lessons well-learned

12. Your lifelong shelter - know you me as gracious
When darkest times or glowing days are adjourned

13. Steadfast when deserted, protecting my honor
Until the meadows are grazed, and the green downturned

14. Enduring winter’s blizzard, its chill winds I suffer
When dawn breaks and the sun peeks, night has sojourned