1. Near a valley is tomorrow's eve
As the night dons its blackest weave

2. And beneath its shutter blinks
In life's surge whiteness it confirms

3. A war I have for its ignitor
A longing I repeat and roar

4. Is there one to tend my passion's course
One to mend it and endorse

5. Yearning wears him down piecemeal
Its insides churning unrest healed

6. Pain wrestles him, should sorrow lour
Grief will seat him and empower

7. In this palace a gazelle it grows
Down the sands other gazelles it glows

8. My palms it rendered yellow and left
Full of me were the hands it cleft

9. How cups with it I sipped and sipped
The night with it I spent and tipped

10. With my longing, my grace I parley
Do I shorten or lengthen my tally

11. My lord I seek your protection
From a heart not fire's rejection

12. Spare me what of me remains aware
That longing for you threatens there

13. Love lies bare in these eyes of mine
And longing makes it shine and shine

14. Longing be generous with my verse
I believe you are matchless and terse.