1. Love is difficult, O Maysa,
So have mercy on one who yearns for you

2. With sorrow, sleeplessness, and tears
That flow down my cheeks

3. Between his eyes and sleep
A war has been declared

4. His eyes are posts for tears
His heart is plunder for love

5. Whenever he uncovers a sorrow
It brings him back, O Maysa, to sorrow

6. This is my state: in my heart
A fire that does not hide

7. O reproacher, you have
Exceeded in reproaching me, so enough

8. There is no wisdom in obsession
No blame upon the obsessed

9. Yesterday I had a heart
Where is my heart today?

10. She captivates my heart
And she tears my liver

11. Her love has cracked the heart
A cracked heart has no remedy

12. What is this tear for? Only
Exile has overflowed with exile

13. And this heart in my chest
Moves and throbs

14. My ribs dance within me
When it strikes them

15. And a fire inside my flanks
That kindles

16. And breaths that have risen
Or a pouring tear

17. And this bed I avoid
While my side rises from it

18. Those are mysteries, so is there
Anyone who understands them but the lover?

19. O my friend, my eyes
For with me is great calamity

20. May God destroy a raven
How many times has it wailed of separation

21. Deafen my ear from him
With the crying of the weeping bird

22. My soul's coquetry is with me
More beloved than its coquetry

23. This night has become very long
O you who sleep, awaken!

24. Perhaps among you is one who will console
A misery that does not cease to grow

25. My mind went astray, how can I hope
That the awake will console the sleepless?

26. How many times has a lover called them
But they did not answer

27. They worship other than the truth
And for falsehood are a party

28. I only cry because
There is no one among the people who wails

29. And if they triumphed over me
They would frighten the secure with terror