1. O lamenter of lost times, your tearful cheeks
Bear witness to the grief that in you seethes

2. You mourn what from them has passed you by
Alas, tears cannot turn back time’s tide

3. Else this age of distance had not slipped away
With lasting sadness ever fresh, it bleeds

4. Hours of life whose bitter regrets
Like fire, within my chest they feed

5. A time for youth has passed away
If fate had helped, bliss it would cede

6. Scant comfort for a grieving heart
That after you all finds naught but cold and bleak

7. Return, heal my illness in your absence
When you come back, my days are Eid

8. But if you shun me, rejecting my love
Eid becomes but naming day for me

9. Do not deny that your absence kills me
By God, I will not cease, plunged in sadness

10. Cheek in the dust, my tears flowing free
Grieving what was, and regretting what could be

11. Maybe nights will give back union’s bliss
And your return make gladness flower and seed

12. In the gardens of acquiescence and consent
With shade on me from you spread far and wide