1. Why do your eyes grow stronger whenever you become weak?
Why does your glance attack while it is ill?

2. Why has the redness of your cheeks increased
As if they were stained with blood?

3. Why are your lips no longer scattering pearls?
Why is your voice no longer well-ordered?

4. A beauty that bewilders all who look, as
my generosity bewildered minds.

5. How far is the rain from being likened to my hands,
and how near is the sun to following my qualities!

6. Never has my heart slept from its vigilance,
nor has my understanding stammered in its unknown.

7. When I line my eyes with sleep, my insight awakens
so that when I sleep, it is as if I did not sleep.

8. So swords are nothing but what my insight has sharpened
and meadows are nothing but what my wisdom has cultivated.

9. Strip the eggs of my opinion and my thought
for striking, and pick out the rubies from my words.

10. It is as if the people around me are darkness and I
am the moon. How can the moon be compared to shadows?

11. A people, as if either the steady time
railed at them or blamed them.