1. The spring sun blossoms and forgets,
While I suffer amongst all people.

2. Your threads tease a mocking weaver,
Untouched by my burning agony.

3. My fantasies hunt their feelings
And attack my mind into despair.

4. If you dance around me, a fragrant glory,
With the meaning of the pure spring breeze,

5. Why not recall a deprived lover
Calling Egypt's melodies atop grief?

6. Its seeds were necklaces of gems
Scattered while we sat conversing.

7. Why not recall how you hardened my childhood,
And my youth when my head kindled?

8. Why not recall my youth and its fantasies
On the Nile between yawning and dozing?

9. Why not recall nights where I went out
With all the stars sheltering and consoling me?

10. Why not recall how you wondered at my loneliness,
What the forsaken misses of comfort?

11. Why not recall the pleasures you promised me,
Never to disappear, yet I disappeared without consolation?

12. Why not recall flowers that rivaled
All suns for a sensitive poet?

13. Why not recall meadows and apiaries
That possessed my limbs and senses?

14. Why not recall the homes I substituted
For my love, and feeling mingled in their air?

15. Why not recall the sand that fluttered its banner,
And the sea came near me, embracing your goblet?

16. Why not recall my modesty from rulers
And my deference, honoring the Lord of mankind?

17. Why not recall all I sacrificed
To honor Egypt, wasted in blindness?

18. Why not recall my stumbling for her glory,
So I was stoned by hands of cruel filial impiety?

19. First, just be whatever coquette you want,
Lightning and shuddering and forgetting.