1. His passion painted fantasies for the youth
Did your apparition reach him or just its mirage?

2. How could it when his eyes know no rest
From a night whose darkness could envelop him

3. He wept for him when he left out of mercy
His guide to separation and its escort

4. While tears of your eyes are imprisoned in
Your secret that does not allow their release

5. To him, the lovesick
Parting from the beloved is utter devastation

6. Until when his abode was razed
And the covenant was severed, its bond torn

7. He penned a scroll, wrapped it around
Arrows in quivers with burning tips

8. From a heavily smitten one whose essence bears
Multiples of what his epistles carry

9. He who never attained a kiss
Except the heartsick, ever-craving one

10. So why should he be lonesome when he who
Abandoned him was lonesome, and his lovers too

11. He hopes for loyalty from him in passion
As if it were glory and its bestowal

12. To him, both his friend
Obedient to whatever he desired to yearn for

13. Without tiring of him, accustomed to him
Nor distraction from him that would free him

14. A gallant who banished stinginess from his folk
With generosity, until even its grasp feared him

15. He meets the days of time as a beggar
While the privileged get their fill of riches

16. Tell the one who gave him succor, guiding him
From the pitfalls of time with compassion

17. Time knows no gentle threat
Its thunderbolts and lightning strike

18. If its aspirations are too lofty for you
Then its morals have stooped below you