1. The cage is home to birds, where they make their abode
Free birds have no joy outside their natural mode

2. Bliss has made it a place full of joy and delight
Play and music and dance are hosted here at night

3. Stars of happiness orbit in its celestial sphere
My exuberance made it the pole and axis here

4. Each part of it seems like a vision that could
Almost with a glance, gently be robbed

5. An illusion, though constant, and water though
Would spill if tipped, and perfect but for one flaw

6. Which is its broadcasting the secret I hide
In its enclosure from which I cannot divide

7. As if hypocrisy formed it, so that in the end
Neither truth nor falsehood from it I can defend

8. It takes the color of what sits next to its space
Matching each nature that it needs to embrace

9. When the base claim it, it rejects their lie
As the wine stains its gold to redden its dye

10. The bride of revelry graced it, radiant and fair
With rhythms and melodies filling the air

11. The wine is a moon and the cup is its crescent phase
The sky is my palm and the stars are beloved maze

12. The water let go its nature with perfect blend
Mixing with us until we saw it ignite

13. In a gathering where cups, not jars, bring around
Wine that for homelessness provides the best ground

14. Forgetting home when immersed in joy is found
By those who from home for happiness are bound

15. Without my famous self-restraint I could not feel secure
Far from Baghdad, finding in Aleppo my cure