1. It is ardent love that has overwhelmed me
And I've been distanced from the one whom I adore

2. My thoughts wandered lost in the essence of my being
And the text of passion - none can explain

3. I call to you, will you near me, be my aid
My brother of woe, his burdens manifest

4. A loved one, his enemies lament his loss
While his own weep for the hardships he's met

5. He's no confidante to solace his sorrow
Or soothe the agony of his longing, none

6. He tries to hide his love though his eyes betray
All that his soul has hidden, make it known

7. Misfortunes befell him, if but one or two
Would an infant endure, they'd shred his innocence

8. Fate cast him out willfully in his isolation
And in avoidance, his wanderings were condensed

9. My two friends, spur on the caravan without me
And speak no lies that its course was bent

10. Misguided from the caravan whose bearing
Its own winds make clear, freely sent

11. A place it leads to, each eager heart
Its beauty arrests all gazes, evokes awe

12. Who passes thinks it a hallowed shrine
When songbirds trill over the boughs caw-caw

13. The clouds watered and greeted it with downpours
At dawn its groves drizzled, caressed with dew

14. You'd think, if the moon shone in the gloom
And dawned in its darkness, it would stand true

15. Beautiful, it shames the sun with its light
And by it, all beings are humbled, made meek

16. A brow, feared by lions in its regal mien
Dreaded by armored knights, soldiers weak

17. It defends my loved one by day and perhaps
By night, its specter visits, makes peace

18. For it, eyes of a gazelle, none else can boast
All its limbs enraptured by its niece

19. If it promises abandonment, it fulfills its threat
If it promises the longing one, it only jokes

20. And if it blames me in ignorance of my devotion
With tears streaming down my cheek it soaks

21. So for it, I'm busy composing refined praise
Its excellent verses my poems adorn