1. My present has become devoid of your connection
So how I delude myself about this separation and my hopes

2. I concealed it, but it was exposed through my tears
Flowing freely from my innermost feelings

3. O neighbors of the dear quarter, you rejoice at your estrangement
Before we parted, you blamed and rebuked me

4. You meet me, then turn away - no wonder
You reproach and humiliate me

5. I lament over a pasture, after you are gone
A sound body, at your abandoned dwellings

6. With tears that have not ceased flowing in sadness
Pausing at the neighborhood that has moved away and dwellings in ruins

7. I have distributed it between painful separation or tormenting passion
Between a pouring of gatherings and assemblies

8. In four lines, the hands of fate have randomly
Inscribed what has not crossed my mind

9. I stood amongst them
As their riding camels departed

10. On the burning embers of passion’s fire
Between a heartfelt lover and an avid reciter of poetry and verse

11. The dwellings where, after they were ravaged,
I wandered and questioned about the loved ones

12. Evil is what I found in them after the bloom of their kindness and beauty
Will time ever return to its course, though its ways are gone

13. I passed by them and could glimpse naught
But traces like the shavings of patience piled up

14. And fate forever continues in its varying states
Between receding and advancing

15. O bending shape of sadness - my heart calls on me
For what was destined for us in your departed era

16. Of the beauty of intimate friends and a pleasant gathering
And the fragrance of pre-dawn and evening gatherings

17. Their dwellings made their doves weep
And they sang over the tamarisk and honey plant

18. They flowed my tears in playfulness
While we are between warbling and moaning

19. Dwellings ravaged by the blowing winds
And rainfall between springs and runnels

20. O Rema, who has surrendered me
To those determined to make me forget and neglect

21. My heart and body are what you have known
In times of pain and affliction

22. Do not stay away, for in love there is much discontent
Blame, talk and words

23. I have left it to people who care for it
While my passion and reproach have diminished

24. Blessed is an era when my she-camel was not prodded
To travel to the dwellings and camel pens

25. No, never was I prodded
For the days gathered us before separation

26. With hopes and traveling
Days when the doe of the neighborhood entrusted

27. Passion, undeterred by gossip
While today in my love and burning

28. I am isolated from the fervor of my heart and its secrets
A frightened gazelle avoiding its glances

29. Fearing for it, from sword and arrow
None among lovers is like me in my ardency

30. Oh remoteness of what my peers and likenesses seek
By God, I will neither forget his love nor ever

31. See myself, as long as I live, distracted from him and his love
And I will not take any substitute, even if

32. Time allowed it, with other matters and changes
And I will not, as long as I live, be busy

33. With anything but him - for he is my life and purpose
O you who seek poetry, its ways exhaust you

34. So refrain from it, in distress and confusion
Take it - for there are many arts in its subtleties

35. Containing wisdom flowing into proverbs