1. Do not fear what longing has done to you,
For the eye reveals it though depths conceal.

2. Stand firmly and do not try to hide it,
Lay bare your passion for we are all lovers.

3. Perhaps one who complained of love to Him,
Will make lighter for you what you yearn for,

4. Or share with you the burden he bears
As lovers join forces in camaraderie.

5. Do not despair though you are not the first
Whose nature was straitened by ardent love.

6. How many a weak lover there is among us,
Whose eyelids and pupils spoke of him.

7. Be patient with your beloved's estrangement,
Perhaps shyness or care has restrained him.

8. For after avoidance and aloofness,
Reunion may come as passions subside.

9. How many are the nights my eyes have spent
Watching the stars while tears flow freely.

10. Indeed, all my time is yours in truth,
My eyelids deny it though longing speaks.

11. O Lord, those I loved are now distant,
While my body, untouched by their love, pines.

12. I see them now content in separation,
As parting itself has parted from parting.

13. My fortune has darkened in their eyes,
Seeking light but betrayed by blindness.

14. Grayness has scorched my head as if
The fires of my youth had burned it.

15. Arabs whose pact I cherished at dawn
Vanish like lightning led astray.

16. Come, all their covenants with me
Are invalid, no pact can they make.