1. I still shed tears from my weeping eyes
Missing those who are gone and will not return
١. ما زلت أسكب دمع عيني باكيا
خالي وما خالي علىّ بعائد
2. Until I looked at existence with tired eyes
Their bleariness went away and my tears dried
٢. حتى نظرت إلى الوجود بمقلة
ذهبت غشاوتها وطرف رائد
3. I saw time setting up traps of misery
And everyone walks into the trapper's snare
٣. فرأيت دهرا ناصبا شرك الردى
والكل يدخل في شراك الصائد
4. It casts an arrow that long deviates people
From it, yet it does not deviate from them
٤. يرمى بسهم طالما حاد الورى
عنه وما هو عنهم بالحائد
5. They are decay, children of decay created for it
And inherited it, from one to the next
٥. فهم البلى وبنو البلى خلقوا له
وتوارثوه بائدا عن بائد