1. After my youth, I long for my past youthhood
Alas, the breach of youthhood will never return

2. Or is there hope after this avoidance
For one who exposed me to blame?

3. My heart is in painful torment
And tears of my eyes like drops of clouds

4. And a gazelle like the gazelles of the rugged land
Smooth of cheeks like drinking

5. In her mouth, honey for my life dissolved
Blessed is he who sips that wine

6. In her hands red like embers
Pure, delicate like a mirage

7. She takes away hatred and fog together
She has two lovely dwellings

8. And a house which floods with sadness
Where I was with Zainab and Rabab

9. Does companionship with time last?
I gain victory for it then it escapes

10. The maidens of Rabab passed by it
So they showed coolness with amazing color

11. Then the hands of clouds mapped it
And an empty deserted place full of rocks

12. In it are the starlings, and silence of stillness
In it are the ostriches, and then the wolves

13. I crossed it in the afternoon of my youth
And the sun at that time below the veil

14. And the night above the hill like kohl
With a book of folded lines

15. I came near a dark shore like the raven
You see it like the writhing viper

16. And when it pounces like an eagle
Or in a flash of lightning or like a shooting star

17. And I was doing the right thing
Until we came to whom riders head

18. We want an imam whose shade was over necks
For his generosity like rain clouds