1. The green leaves sang
And tears of passion streamed from my throat

2. When I returned to the sand dunes and country palaces
I remembered and the sorrowful find comfort in memories

3. The phantom of fantasy that crept
Disturbed my star of patience when passion disturbed me

4. I felt a fire in my soul and embers
Oh my burning innards, melt with sadness and fervor

5. Like a pearl tossed by the estrangement of my desires
There she was, in the darkness, like the full moon

6. Thirsty, and for those who love you, your love is sweet water
Just a sip of the essence from your lips and bite

7. When will the shining lightning flash from your fever?
I remembered you and my insides were as though

8. Wrapped in hidden straw, lying on embers
Patience has passed and fervent longing has come

9. And I have tasted from your love a sea of misfortune
I cannot forget the reproacher of our affair

10. Dawn came between us, erecting a barrier
My heart remains your prisoner in captivity

11. I am captive, folding its secret in my soul
And carrying in the soul of my soul its heat

12. Those who blame have resented my affair and hers
And said “make another choice for yourself”

13. But I said “do not worry about me”
She is the singing gazelle and my heart is her home

14. A sun whose orbit is in my heart
Her aloofness tore the armor of my patience

15. For I am like the obsessed, bound to her for eternity
We were both young lovers

16. She preoccupied me as I preoccupied her
We were worn by the passage of time, her and I

17. She desires my company just as I crave hers
Were it not for the estrangement of separation

18. Oh you whose way is blame and rebuke
Do you reproach the heart of the beloved her heart?

19. How can he see advice when his core is melted?
And how can you console the soul for one you love

20. When she is not destined to have patience in estrangement