1. A lightning bolt in the wings flashed by
And your eyelid's tear started flowing

2. You envied the Tunisian so you became forgetful
Of your patience, composure and dignity

3. Melancholy tosses you on a bed
As if its stuffing were the blueness of lips

4. You recalled the covenants so you stayed resolute
A brother thirsty for the well of stones

5. I dwelled by it for years but my liver was not sated
Nor did my embers subside

6. The well of stones and its inhabitants were quenched
By sufficient, adequate rain that wetted the trains

7. And greeted with happiness each full moon
It was illuminated by it and protected from mysteries

8. And greeted the rosy-cheeked young man
With a pure, white, radiant smile

9. The beloved Nile, of rare beauty
Small whom they exalted over the little ones

10. If he touched, he joked, my heart said
Throbbing cautiously from his tenderness

11. He sees the torment of the one he loves as agony
And knows not union nor rivalry

12. I persisted in my despair, staying put
My hands jaundiced and my face yellow

13. Her anklets, when revealed
Show inadequacy in the short whites

14. She acts coyly and wanders astray
Does the sun see from its abode?

15. The bachelor observes her and chooses her
And excuses every evasive excuse

16. I enjoyed her despite the noses of a people
She glances at me with a coy eye

17. We stayed overnight and wine was our companion
Making us happy like a hand and bracelet

18. When I give her a cup of rapture
It dresses her in a gown of ember

19. When I kiss her, my yearning increases
As if the kiss were a kind of elixir

20. The daughter of generosity blended by the son of generosity
Who knows well when to pay attention

21. Our fifth, the beauty Khamees, sings
My wish, O eyes of the empty desert

22. My eyelids then envy my hearing
And testify to the merit and pride

23. O era of communication, is there a return
To extinguish what I concealed of feelings?

24. And reunite us after separation
As we desire according to my choice

25. Perhaps God will unite us soon
And I will take my revenge on the twists of fate

26. My friends, remember my covenant, for I
Yearn for you at the far tombs