وكيف لا يرهب المنية من

وكيف لا يرهب المنية من

تقطر الحاضه منيات

تقطر الحاضه منيات

And how could one not fear death,

How could death not terrify one

Whose glances drip with deaths,

Whose life drips away,

مقرطاً دهرا العقارب أو

مقرطاً دهرا العقارب أو

مسوراً دهره بحيات

مسوراً دهره بحيات

For a lifetime wearing scorpions as earrings, or

With time engraving moments like a scorpion,

Throughout his life wearing snakes as bracelets?

Or enclosing it with serpents.