1. I spent two miserable nights
Alone, conversing with my hookah

2. While the brazier wept outside the house
Intensifying the darkness

3. I rested the pipe on my knees
And started humming on my bed

4. When suddenly winds blew from the door
And extinguished the light of my candle

5. When the darkness surrounded me
And its blackness filled my room

6. A mouth smiled at my hookah
Like a slave who smiled in the dark

7. And nothing was more beautiful than her mouth
And nothing more wondrous than my bewilderment

8. She was cloaked in a bluish hue
Resembling the pillows of light

9. But I saw in her an alluring pull
That stirred my passion within

10. So I brought my pipe closer to her flame
And heard the harshness of her kiss

11. And had her mouth not been so scorching
I would have sipped from the embers

12. Because I did not know what sweetness in her
Resembled my beloved

13. I said to her that I was suffering
And let out my sigh into her depths

14. And her chest echoed sighs
That stirred sorrows in my soul

15. Daughter of Taoma, why do you not sigh
As you are my companion in my solitude

16. I saw you as a symbol of every wretched one
Cast by love into the heat of misery

17. She replied, "I am now in bliss
Because my beloved is in bliss

18. But soon after a short while
I will be left alone in my solitude

19. Then the mouth of my lover departs from me
And what assuaged my suffering is gone

20. That is why you see me crying for ages
Where I will be in without allure

21. For the truth of love is a liar
That reason compares to a star

22. So dawn does not come until you see it
In front of its retreating troops

23. And then slumber beguiled my eyelids
So that I could barely sustain my gaze

24. And when my eyes were covered in sleep
I dreamed of my hookah