1. Our hearts find solace in the memory of departed friends
How can a heart find solace when it is violated?

2. The night lingers as each star keeps watch
Only to disappear into the darkness

3. Muhammad ibn Riyah intended to insult me
But that insult rebounded upon Riyah

4. Have you forgotten your mother’s death atop Al-Ayri?
She spins around like the spinning of Abu Riyah

5. She sang to me as I rode atop her
Becoming an inseparable, attached friend

6. Are we not better than those who rode mares
And called humanity to rest at meadows?

7. So I said “Enough with the pretenses, this is not
A time of satire or flattering odes.”

8. But now is a good time
To turn the nobles into commoners

9. She said “Here are my legs, raise them
And drive your spear into the belly of Raha.”

10. After he had his way, she sang
Calling the family of Layla to comfort her spirit.