يا غادراً بي ولم أغدر بصحبتِه

يا غادراً بي ولم أغدر بصحبتِه

وكان مني مكان السمع والبصر

وكان مني مكان السمع والبصر

O my betrayer, whose friendship I did not betray,

O betrayer of me, though I did not betray his company,

And who was to me as hearing and sight.

He was to me in place of hearing and sight.

قد كنت من قلبك القاسي أخال جفاً

قد كنت من قلبك القاسي أخال جفاً

فجاء ما خلته نقشاً على حجر

فجاء ما خلته نقشاً على حجر

I had expected coldness from your hard heart;

I had thought that your hard heart was free from estrangement,

So what I had imagined came as an inscription on stone.

But what I feared has come to pass, engraved on stone.