1. Every person heading towards a hoped for goal
Is in my eyes no longer bound by childish ways

2. I saw you break in violently one night, oh beast
Leading in your camel into its resting place

3. We saw nothing original, nothing invented
When we saw your overly adorned bride

4. All you have said is what people have already spoken
Its verses so often recited and intoned

5. You’ve added nothing except to explicate
The grammar in each carefully pronounced word

6. So ask God for an idea to compel the mind
To a seemliness that would shroud the nude

7. And it pains me that you were Yahya
Yet did not firmly grasp the book, the Quran