عَذيريَ من بدر السماء لحظتُه

عَذيريَ من بدر السماء لحظتُه

فوكَّل إنساني برعيْ الفراقِدِ

فوكَّل إنساني برعيْ الفراقِدِ

Who will vindicate me against heaven’s full moon? I glanced at him,

My excuse is that I glimpsed his full moon face

so he set my eye’s pupil to watching the polar stars.

So I left my humanity to tend the tombs

وآنستُه فازداد نفراً كأنه

وآنستُه فازداد نفراً كأنه

وإيايَ ظَبي قد أحسَّ بصائدِ

وإيايَ ظَبي قد أحسَّ بصائدِ

And I befriended him, but he grew more skittish, as though he

And found him companionable, yet he recoiled

in my presence were a gazelle that had sensed a hunter.

Like a deer with me who sensed a hunter nearby

لينكر ما أشكو بخلوة قلبه

لينكر ما أشكو بخلوة قلبه

وليس لشكْوى واجدٍ غيرُ واجدِ

وليس لشكْوى واجدٍ غيرُ واجدِ

He surely denies what I lament, for his heart is untouched by love,

That he might deny what I lament in his heart's solitude

and none understands a lover’s lament but another lover.

For no complainer finds a confidant but another complainer