1. O companion of life, have you ever seen someone like me
When repelling desires and doubting doubts

2. I embark on a momentous mission with determination
And my clothes are the darkness of convolutions

3. I tear open sleeves to get rid of weariness
With a handful of resolve and a strong grip

4. And I am the one who rouses determination towards anxiety
So I dispel it from the steadfastness of the frowning one

5. The protector of the soul like the cheeky and audacious one
Wavering between arrogance and entanglement

6. In his thickets, the flies, daughters of the insects
Frolick in an alluring and interwoven manner

7. Indifferent to pillows, with a heart that keeps
The mind awake, not boiling or hissing

8. I ride the night in the horror of the immense darkness
And the dawn returns at the time of buckets

9. And so I wish to be the young man of ambition
Not the lowly and defeated one

10. And to my brothers, owners of the camel litter
I send my greetings and affections

11. Greet them from someone witnessing the Bedouins
Who is absent from them in the abode of Atik

12. So the praise of its expanses is conjecture
In the land of Iraq and Yarmouk

13. Khorasan roared, and Yemen the remover
The making of its Sanaa, and the people of Tabuk

14. Woe to you, may you cry, poetry has been violated
So weep for its ravaged curtain

15. Then they tore open the sleeves, the matter came close
And its vastness is like Abu Al-Durook

16. O woman of Qais, if you saw your beloved poetry
Brought down by the water of inferior diction

17. You would cry tears of blood for literature
In a stream of pouring tears

18. You would make Tarafa, Zuhair, Labid and the family of Nahik cry
And the two Nabighas cried from intense passion

19. Then the plaiter of the well-woven poem
Where are Shammakh, Al-Kumait, and he of renown, the describer of momentous events and Nabik?

20. Where is that witty one, I mean Ibn Hani
Good looking and taught the kings' companions?

21. Death has ruled over you
And its rule came without doubts

22. And I was substituted for them with the substitution
Of the blind for the one-eyed, the unworthy for the worthy

23. The people are gone. Rather, the time of the people has passed
And I was left for the ravaged time