1. Buthaina, I do not accept farewell though I would
Accept my blood being shed for you

2. To Egypt I will go, if I leave you I will die
Yet I have no fortune with the mummies there

3. So torture me in your company, which is paradise to me
And do not heed any complaints or lamentations

4. In Egypt they revive the dead with their mummies
But for the likes of me, death is like living in affliction

5. And where can I go, O beauty?
Does passion’s fickleness towards me lie?

6. If the world has betrayed me, I remain faithful
To love, like a merciful mother, always

7. And on Judgement Day, I will find none but you, my loyal one
And nothing but pure love will intercede for me

8. I live by the faith of love, despite my deprivation
Reluctantly, until foes make amends

9. So free me from my torment, my beloved
And do not send me to oblivion, destitute

10. If the sun sheds its light, not for some fools
And if love revives one who died, anew

11. God knows that I
Would sacrifice myself, not one who desires you as a martyr

12. Yes, O my Buthaina
For it is shameful to blame me when you are my goddess

13. Sacrosanct in my heart and its love
The scent of lively blood and dreams of lips

14. But O Buthaina, my beloved, what is it
That turns your thoughts from my company immediately?

15. If you wished, I would place poems into my soul
Colored sand, and set them free intoxicated

16. And they would go to this beauty, or on ships
To Egypt, where the sand is more vibrant and fluttering

17. And where the Nile's waters flow dancing
Some flirting with others, joyful and free

18. O beauty, enough, enough
I save with dreams a love we lost

19. And how can love be lost in the breast of a lover
Who transcended the meaning of creation, in spirit and light?

20. And how, when my vow is like the breeze that blew
Across generations, an eternal hymn?

21. Have you forgotten that I am the husband of one from whom I will never be deprived
Even if I lived on Mars, atop its mountains?

22. For its peaks are an example for the woman
And its peaks are most moral with love

23. I yearn for her, responding to a call
With which the beautiful radiant dawn sang

24. It was fragrant with the breaths of Egypt and its Nile
And with its precious inspiration shining for us

25. Beautiful, beautiful, have mercy on me, I
Suffer from abandonment and regrets

26. But deprivation is more delicious to my soul
Than shame which no noble nature accepts

27. Deprivation may create a beautiful soul
Who loved and cared more for beauty

28. Farewell, my love, here is the sun bidding farewell
And the sorrows of sunset have appeared to me

29. Farewell, I have nothing left but a yearning
That will accompany me to my death

30. And I see around me visions of agony
Songs of lament and a voice of madness

31. Farewell, despair has become my guide
Though it was once my adversary and opponent

32. Farewell, it is as if we were created for separation
And we are dolls suffering at the hands of a villain

33. Farewell, my life, and allow me to kiss
A foot whose steps are my paradise

34. Farewell, before night, for the night is harshness
Even if you are a sun above all beasts

35. Farewell, my love, I will remain faithful
In spirit to you, like a flower to its tender gardener

36. For I am nothing but you, whatever turns of fate
Take us in a world with no faith

37. Farewell, my love, let some of my tears
Be your tears, and dry your precious weeping eyes

38. Farewell, I have nothing left but the hermitage of sorrow
A consolation. Farewell O my angel and human

39. Farewell, my life, I will always look
At you in the mirror of the sky, again and again

40. And I will confide in every beauty that surrounds me
In hopes some meaning in it is hidden from you