1. O kiss that passed over my banks like
the phantom of a beloved who passed in a dream and took flight

2. It drew with it a river of love and passion
that flowed as fire in my veins to the last breath

3. You possessed my feelings when you filled my senses
To You, O God, I am in bewilderment and drowning

4. I spend my day contracting and in apprehension
and my fervor intensifies when dusk approaches

5. When you come, the blaze softens in my mind
and when you leave me, my mind returns to burning

6. I say to my heart that she is truthful in love
and in her heart is love for another, it did not flutter

7. So believe her, believe what is in her eyes
Did you not see it, the water longed for it and caught fire

8. And my sight, once glance away from her path
As if you are stretched by a thread of anxiety

9. And poets of the earth, how truthful is the dew
when Layla smiles and how false is the paper

10. And if she looks, how eloquent is silent poetry
And if she speaks, how sweet is poetry when it speaks

11. I passed by the colors of words and their splendor
So nothing pleased my eye, then it died on the eyelids

12. Like a light cloud that the light wipes its face
To the first winds of night it dissolves in the horizon

13. So listen, do not be deceived by the joy in words
And heart, teach that the sweetest poetry is what is truthful