1. Between every eyelid of mine, an eye lies between
Yet only one eye stays awake for another eye

2. Days of estrangement and nights of yearning
Ordained for every time, for every era

3. My heart settled between sorrow and burning
So what can this do, between these two?

4. They accused your eyes of sorcery
Yet your eyes remained falsely accused

5. When she glanced at me with them
Who then is the sorcerer of these two glancing eyes?

6. So drink as you would drink rose-water
Passed from one cup to two cheeks

7. As if when they shone in the morning
A green-eyed one witnessed the two faiths

8. In a year whose first rains shone forth
The clouds poured and Hussain's hands gave generously

9. What difference remains between us, after
The path of the rain aligned with the path of the hands?

10. So let the days strip from me, how long
Will I wear the garb of oblivion and debt?

11. If the days destine a state for me
Many lines repelled the two lines

12. And astonished them, that they did not see before it
Such wonder in the hand of one with two lips

13. With the reeds of writing, deadly
In the reeds of the hands, planted

14. Every place sounded by it, sounds
Spread, so none ask where it is