1. O you who weep for your brother, weep only
For the day of parting among dear ones

2. My brother, the day the pigeons cried I wept for him
And had my day come before his, he would have wept for me

3. His days collapsed around him and fate assailed him
And left me with sorrow everywhere

4. If only he who will lament Salman tomorrow morning
Would weep like that at my grave and comfort me

5. If my agony was apportioned among jinn and men it would have overwhelmed them
He wept for its intensity, the two races

6. If the days sought ransom