1. Alone in the desert, lost and confused
When will the clouds rain mercy

2. On the barren wilderness?
My mouth is dry, my throat thirsts

3. The spring of wishes ran dry
And dreams no longer sparkle in sleepy eyes

4. O you who enjoy fullness, my eyes brim
While yours know no satiation

5. Chastise me, dominate me, do as you wish
For beauty is in your hands, so be unjust and contentious

6. But not in this wish, for I have
Shadows of death swirling around it

7. Life withers here and sighs
As if daylight is a destroying hammer

8. Do not abandon me to that endless gloom
In the depths of the turbulent sea

9. Do not leave me to the abyss
Where storms roar within it and winds howl

10. It asks flowers, vines and lights
About its smiling, blooming soil

11. It has not tasted in my youth
Except the slaughter of the soul and the separation of twins

12. If you count yourself as my benefactor
Then keep to the sacred pacts and noble traits

13. And if you see my resolve weakening
Then strengthen it with memories, like pillars

14. You came to me in autumn and the garden was bare
So you clothed the hills in veils of buds

15. And spring made my hands green again
To wipe away their accumulated yellowness

16. A journey to the stars that was not
Fantasies, and some pleasures, dreams of a dreamer

17. Oh, how many nights I recollect my days
Count the ascents and list the greatest heights

18. And I calculated the loss within them
So the deprivation seemed to me, my passed time

19. Before we met, and after we met
I knew wealth and tasted the winnings

20. Wherever I wander, the pearls are
The fullness of my soul, and in my imagination, smiles

21. If I refuse hungry, still my provisions are there
If I refuse poor, still there are dirhams

22. And strangely you had been the envy of the envious
Yet you were my amulets

23. By the one whose pact I protected, I was not disloyal
And when hands betrayed what they grasped

24. And he whose rule was like the fate of my eyes
Neither he, nor them, nor it had any protection

25. What voice from the unknown calls me
To cross the world and its landmarks?

26. A blazing destiny on the edge of lips that call
So I walk on the flames and have no regrets

27. And my heart hovers with fire, unaware
That I walk toward the inevitable

28. Passion is my demise, and how many doves
Were doors to eternal permanence

29. And paths from the thorns and agonies
Whose soil was watered by pouring tears

30. God knows I have not spent nights
Gently lying on a gentle bed

31. What army drowns my lofty night
Or is it just longing, overwhelm and intense?

32. Oh, from hopes that sometimes
Grasp my soul in anticipation of a coming day

33. News may come tomorrow from the Nile's bank
And the light winds, promising winds

34. And salvation will be upon the walking star
On a boat of light, dreaming