1. The tribe found the separation unbearable so they escaped
And preoccupied you with a yearning no matter how they evaded

2. They did not stop quarreling amongst themselves
When intentions went astray, the first of them differed

3. Until they found what we suspected them of
And they eased the need, the heart they were infatuated with

4. And they walked away, the barren land hurling them
Abruptly, without resistance or sympathy

5. And the family shunned the beloved so the hardy desires united
With those of determination and they allied

6. And bottled up resentment unleashed itself upon them
And forbidden desires prevented them which they had disobeyed

7. So the murdered victim whom they had betrayed returned
Without compensation or oaths binding them

8. They split his heart then excessive in lamentation
Repulsed by tears that would not cease

9. As if their betrayal of the family when they parted
If the desert or elevated land secluded them

10. Were palm trees spending the night embracing birds safely
Where ease and branches emerge from it

11. Lofty in number, adorned in variety
With sewn edges and seating atop of which are chambers

12. Until when the caravan had traversed the highland
The mountains' heights were traversed by the elevated caravan

13. Of each human, every moist twig in its hollows
Without a drop of sweat betraying its burden

14. When they marched slowly, the hands and curtains slowed them
Over its contours the procession and the train

15. In the tents, imagined beauties pictured
Created more beautifully than one describing can portray

16. They had not experienced any life of happiness in the world
For life is but a loaned enjoyment

17. When a story was mentioned, they told the best of it
And they are far from any evil to be avoided, shielded

18. To the heart they were a worry so it is confused
Pouring with love for them, even if they tortured it harshly

19. Of every radiant one whose flaws her livelihood did not reveal
Neither relief nor suffering from life

20. While the fortunate ones spent the night indulged
Neglected, their meager existence did not provide subsistence

21. Like an ostrich egg in the sand for it there remains
Besides the dew, only the edges of its shell's folds

22. When the night grows dark and its battles subside
Its flesh craves her love, famished

23. Tossing in the darkness which continued to strike it
Drawing from it screams, and from it lashes, dripping

24. Or a grouse from the slopes of the Unaza goading it
The clouds sparing it briefly before being shredded

25. A flea-bitten one it shakes until it accompanies her
From her twitching, the flinching ground's friction

26. And it edged away from her to the extent of its hobbling
Mocking her with its cooing and deviant strutting

27. As it stays close to its hen besides the millet
With its neck and hands the foolish aged one

28. I gifted her from daughters who were his before
And from sons but loss took them all

29. Until when the days had completed their turn
And worries kindled in its temples and sorrow

30. She was separated from him after being tossed
With a toss of assumption, deluded and cleaved in half

31. So she reached a piece of his heart that remained
He still fears over it, desiccated