1. O my Lord what is this I see before me
What light in what firmament

2. It is the abode of melodies after scattering
And the dwelling of souls after wandering

3. Death and life proceed calmly
On time which flows like a pendulum

4. Yearning away from the worlds conclusively
Where tranquility ascends to the expanse of space

5. And the birds of destiny twitter in death
A twitter that intensifies the horror of demise

6. But tranquility is shredded by it
And destiny walks on the commotion

7. Eternal in existence, it rules in death
And remains on the existence of existence

8. And if you listen, silence responds
To the wailing of eternity and perpetuity

9. Perishment responds from afar
To meet the stillness of inanimateness

10. A disturbing dream the earth sees it as
And this demise is like sleep

11. Non-existence imagined it for it
Out of fear in recurring deaths

12. Nothing brings life to it save
The whiteness of snow on the rocks

13. Like the rush of calamities some
Beset others in tumultuous horror

14. They pound on rocks and caves
And collapse upon them like birds of prey

15. I covet all I see for it is death
Forewarning the earth of decrepitude

16. Time and death rest in it
After the prolonged circling and roving

17. And as if time was possessed by fear
Thus it fell into the arms of destruction

18. And faded in it slowly, slowly
Then collapsed upon it like a pillar

19. So demise rules singularly
Chaotically over the majesty of the place

20. It is a valley of death spreading in it
Semblance of a perishing world, and semblance of life

21. Time is spread like a carpet to fold it
And gallops upon it like the swift

22. The winds tore themselves apart on it
Storms from above it, disastrous

23. A turbulence resembling life in what it folds
But devoid of sounds

24. You see the horizon rising in a space
Appearing in it like ghosts

25. In attire of pitch-dark darkness
Enwrapped by the darkness of wings

26. And you see the lightning winking prolifically
In the folds of the firmament like wounds

27. Or like a battle against darkness, aiding
It rose between bodies and souls

28. And you see the wave above it, a wave rides a wave
And rises high, attacking in its surge

29. Darkness upon darkness that wearies the eye in its extent
Sombre, billowing, sprawling in turbulence in a fiery night

30. O Lord where is the escape from it and this
Phantom of death has prolonged its neighing

31. It is this ship sailing hastily
In haste running with the currents

32. Perishing into one another then reviving
To redo the act in life

33. Some resembling others in life
Had they not differed in eras

34. Oh for this demise and its passion
Oh for this destiny and fate

35. O time how you have wasted a life
Lush, of abundant shadows

36. Where we were and in it was fulfilled
Every need from hopes and wishes

37. Every day grows fairer and kinder
Then tomorrow passes similarly

38. No cloud has marred its sky
And it passed gently in the best of states

39. And there comes to you cooing and wailing
From the darkness of caves and clamour

40. Is it the lament of dreams felled by death?
And the plaint of what hopes endure?

41. Or is it the soul crying for help and weeping
From a hostile enemy in death, of evil omen?

42. Or is it death singing in darkness?
Or tunes echoing from paradise?

43. Alas, my poet, enough lingering
It is not the shore of heights but rather

44. A corner from the shore of heights
You will see the hiding place of nights and find

45. The death of time in its extensive darkness
Where no guide is there to direct

46. Nor above it clamors a protector
So its orb sailed cleaving the darkness

47. In a course whose travel is fleet
It churns the wave and heavy mist with a foot

48. Evil, assailing destruction on the fallen
Then it anchored and a shudder

49. Enwrapped it over a shore of fears, calm
No vision upon it but darkness

50. No sense upon it but contraction