1. If time passes me by
Rushing with events

2. Your love grows in me out of fear
That it might forget me

3. Where can I hide when
It has shown them where I am

4. And as long as they do not
Leave me be, they will not leave

5. And my trials of
My composure and testing of me

6. Did you not see me as
Some of what you saw me to be

7. Do not leave your secret captive
Between my gaze and my tongue

8. Or just say you do not obligate me
To what they both do

9. O you who rides my heart
Wildly with confusion

10. Do not trick me, for it is not
Owned by the reins

11. It has a bright smooth face
Radiant with splendor

12. Drawing from the virtues
Of my father Amr ibn Banan

13. The one with the white hands that walk
Twins in sight

14. For were they not so close
They would be stars with orbits

15. Nothing appears to us from them
First except second

16. Not because of what his hands do
With the hand of generosity two hands

17. How many a status with him
Corrupted by correcting my status

18. His excellence gathered
The weak from bending and yielding

19. The smiles of the sullen do not
Blossom except with smiles

20. Of graciousness he was never
Void of graciousness

21. He looked at the world with the eyes
Of an ascetic to greed and lusts

22. For it is an abode which his palm
Lowered, an abode of disgrace

23. How can my praise run its course
When the pulsating hearts are too narrow

24. With glories he always
Initiated the meanings’ virginity

25. If poetry about him obeyed
After having disobeyed me

26. And to whom has the weight inclined
From him, the two heavies