1. What is it with love's nooses
That ambush the morning and burn it?

2. And longing, longing and its hammers
Kill my patience and tear it apart

3. The waves, the waves pour it out
And the night extends and drowns it

4. The currents almost besieged it
If not for the shore that loves it

5. What is it with love's nooses
That ambush the heart and burn it?

6. A night that crouches with its obsessions
And a sky swirling with meteors

7. The Nile surged with lights
Flourishing with passion and rapture

8. It gathered the loved ones and garlanded them
With necklaces of silver and gold

9. And the daughters of the full moon adorn them
The waters of the Nile amazed by them

10. What is it with love's nooses
That ambush the heart and burn it?

11. Why does this phantom roam around me
From bend to bend

12. While the night, the night and its planets
Wander aimlessly on the ceiling?

13. The hours of life call out to them
And I call out, I implore, stop!