1. Yearning and memories keep me awake
The dwellings and homes are now vacant

2. Lovers have departed, yet my heart
Travels with them wherever they went

3. Yearning comes with remoteness
And longing when shrines are far

4. Nights without them seem so long
Where have the short nights gone?

5. Since sleep conquered my eyelids
Night equals day to me

6. Who can lend me eyes that close
And see eyes that never tire?

7. My sleep after they left is long
And my slumber after they traveled is deep

8. After them how can I be patient
When staying put lacks patience?

9. My nights have no bright dawn
My love has no consolation

10. And many speakers, while alive
Have veiled their mockery in benefits reaped

11. You standing in homes while alive
And your people are far, is shameful

12. When the wine’s lightning flashed at night
And the darkness is its breastplate

13. The bride of comfort was revealed in it
At a night graced with streaming stars

14. The cups did their work, so some said
Its ferment either turns in bottles, or it is fire

15. A smooth drink we gain cheer from
When its bottle starts turning

16. Clear extract like melted amber
Dimmed by the splendor of its extracts

17. When it comes out it glitters in containers
We fear its sparks would fly

18. It has seeds of ruby atop
And under its windows, meadows

19. As if to please us with drinking
Vintners slaughtered its ants for us

20. So serve it in the flowers of a meadow
Where singers on its edges sing

21. Days of youth and pleasure
Are clothes we borrowed to wear

22. They quenched the people of passion, and if they leave
My tears after them pour heavily

23. If valley clouds one day withhold
The clouds of my tears are loaded with hail

24. And if the caravan travels, my tears for it
In every direction have caravans

25. By many a crescent of a night I swore
I’d travel it like bangles slither

26. On an unsettled she-camel of mine
To whom belong the desolate plains

27. For every disturbed I have a friend
And for every dark night I have a minaret

28.
I describe it if it is absent in poetry

29. For passion, forever a motto
Verses poured from my sea of thought

30. That belittled oceans when recited
When I recite it, sorrows subside

31. Calmness and dignity make it weighty

32. Tongues trained on its waters shape it
As befits it, teeth clasp it, lips guard it

33. It has lineage to the nomad Arabs
Verified by trials and selections

34.
Musk emanates from it all the time

35. From its sides blow the perfumes of youth
My thoughts fall short of reaching it