1. She said, “Grey hair has appeared.” I said, “Yes,
Time has rushed ahead hastily and impatiently.

2. And with the grey hair despite its problems
There is leisure for nonsense at times, and for flirting.

3. It seemed to me that my recklessness was a tear
After fifty years, and whoever hears will be confused.

4. Does my love for Su’ad kill me,
And when love is excessive, it kills?

5. An idea flashed in my sleep,
The flash of lightning appeared, then faded away.

6. What lies could be for you, if purposefully I traveled,
And what intimacy from you, if truly I did?

7. It appears and disappears in my eyelids,
So when sleep leaves it, it disappears.

8. A moon I followed out of yearning,
The morning looked at it until it set.

9.
My heedlessness has shocked me after safety,

10. And the shock of safety calls for caution.
I did not imagine that my bliss would betray me

11. With the betrayal of a shadow that crept then moved on.
A time whose events play with me

12. The play of misfortune with the broken spear.
And I see nothingness, so do not heed it

13. An obstacle to overcome, and words that crumble away.
I made my soul greater, and with hatred made it greater,

14. That it should receive the Nile from the palm of the weakling.
And of kindnesses there is a bitterness acknowledged