1. Why the estrangement, and for what reason the refusal and boredom?
Why have messages between us been severed?

2. Great is the difference between us in love;
My share is loyalty, while your share is boredom.

3. The slanderers said that I have become weary of you,
What a lie - what they mentioned and conveyed about me!

4. My masters, I have not gained from you kindness and pleased acceptance,
If after you I could find any substitute.

5. I do not see, after you, my eyes delighting in any faces,
If after you they adorn themselves with kohl.

6. Nor have I attained my goal in your companionship,
If after you my heart can find any consolation.

7. You went away, so the solace departed, and the means
Of my patience expanded, until the stratagems ran out.

8. My expectation of you before the separation was good,
Until you went away, so hopes and wishes failed.

9. I carried more than I could endure, and yet I was a young man,
Who possessed no she-camel or camel in this.

10. And separation works in my heartache what
No emaciated, withered one could accomplish.

11. I have come with a brief description of longing,
While the details and full account are with my Master.

12. The reason for reproach is that for some time
No books or messages have come to me from you.