1. Is there still burden upon you and passion for me,
A body melting away, tears and sickness?

2. And a dove calling the gentle breeze - how often
A dove brought yearning, as did a pigeon.

3. It cooed - how hard for you above its branches!
Leaves murmuring while eyes slumber.

4. So I stayed up apart from friends due to its lament,
And for lightning flashing through the dark of night.

5. It remains waving
While my heart flutters

6. With its glimmer beyond hearts tightly clasped.
The loved ones left Zarud and left behind

7. My agony enveloped by grief and madness.
And when the abode of love was devoid of its people

8. It was forbidden for my eyelids to close upon my eyes.
And if separation was decreed after their nearness

9. The intention was futile - farewell to life!
The lovers blamed in reproach but did not perceive,

10. And my liver, which they criticized and blamed!
Who will tell our neighbors of Tuweila

11. That I stayed up from love while they slept?
A people - if mentioned I tremble with passion

12. As if cups revolved around me.
They were dearest to me

13. And though they departed, to me they are generous.
I yearn for the return of the travelers, and how often

14. Hopes lied and pride refused!
Alas! Where is the return of the days of fervor?

15. They left and my tears are their legacy.
Or how can return be hoped for the loved ones

16. While around them is separation and blame?
Seeking out the loved ones is misguidance after

17. The lovers settled around them and stood up.
The lover is shunned, avoided, and neglected

18. While the covenant of love to him remains tied.
So it is as if his days curved

19. Into good living while they were but a dream!
The valleys of the place poured from his eyelids

20. Torrents when clouds gathered in them.
A place I ask about, and in my heart for it

21. Is burning complaint I make to it.
About a neighborhood who backstabbed and made desolate

22. The companion of joy within my heart they settled.
Nights of nearness were holidays with them

23. Adorned while time was in its prime.
And today hopes failed after

24. They departed and separation remained binding.
Our neighbors - who spent the night enamored with you

25. While you avoided him - how can he sleep?
My tryst with passion is that the breath of youth rouses

26. Or that tents appear waving.
And arrows launched, blazing missiles,

27. Fired by the ardent lover upon his riding camel.
It sought the meadows of the backbiters, provoking it

28. A reason of love - a paradise and wildlife.
It avoided the flowers of faultfinding, to passion

29. And the valley’s halting-places, among which are pigeons.
It trots between his shoulders, as if

30. Mocking the winds, strutting ostentatiously.
From every arriving misfortune it was as if

31. A bridle restraining it from the halter.
Or Mus'ab who did not bend what the tips of his spear curved

32. In the waste from the discomfort of high energy.
He travels and neither for my brother of love nor him

33. In an abode after separation is there stay.
And if he you kept affection for has changed

34. And the ropes of the pact became decayed,
Then leave off blame - do not blame him, for rarely

35. Does it avail once pacts are severed by blame.
The worst covenant-breakers are fickle,

36. Blamed at times and criticized at others.
And if a band boasts of composition,

37. I have excelled - for all I am the master.
They concluded with my poetry, and their conclusion was

38. Musk - and musk is fragrant even as a seal.