1. Our loved ones in that land, after I left
I still see you, though we've long been apart

2. And though my home is far away from you
I remain constant in my ardour and passion

3. When a breeze blows from that place
I drink it in, sipping like blood from a wound

4. To feel Alexandria's exhilaration
Quenching the fire burning within my ribs

5. And I send to the South my warmest greetings
Have my words reached you over this distance?

6. God watered my days there with joy and rain
Like my tears for that life of ease long gone

7. How many visits there renewed my joy
Without waiting or promise, spontaneously

8. On that gulf were boats I sailed
Trailing youth and tenderness in their wake

9. When the winds roamed free, they conversed
Whispering to me of perfumed secrets

10. And its breeze wove above the water
An interlaced tale, complex as chainmail

11. Our nights were spent on the seashore
Strolling the sands between dune and hollow

12. Flirting with its gazelles, wild and untamed
Whose nature was hunting and capturing prey

13. The waves narrated their heavy burdens
At times hiding them, at times revealing

14. This water flows over that water
One tasting bitter, one sweeter than honey

15. When the current meets their surging tide
We see the wind's power on swaying reeds

16. Nights and days passed like glistening pearls
Scattered when the necklace snaps, link by link