1. Reproaching him for my extreme injustice and estrangement,
And asking him, perhaps he may have mercy on my misery.

2. Have mercy inasmuch as you both can in my talk,
And take care to please him with my poetry.

3. And mention me, for if there appears in him
Aversion, divert him from the mention of me.

4. He abandoned me and my misery in his love,
So at the time I loved one who abandoned me.

5. If my sin against him were other
Than my love for him, I would clarify my excuse.

6. I have concealed my passion though my tears sleep,
And I have borne estrangement though my patience is frail.

7. He does not know the whole meaning of the one
Who grieves, nor my tears for the one who passed the night streaming.

8. His secret among the people is concealed,
Concealed, so what is upon him in unveiling my veil?

9. Would that our days were at Barzah, so the earth therein
Would return one day with my life.

10. After them my silence against diversion,
So is there for me a return of them at the Feast of Breaking Fast?

11. I do not cease remembering a people
Who never cross their minds to mention me.

12. O gazelle who has stubbornly plunged into estrangement,
How much blood you would have shed had you known!

13. Every undulation is like a sand dune
Swaying smoothly.

14. He has protected his mouth with a drowsy glance -
Oh, to be drowsy, watching out for my mouth!

15. In it is a wine-skin which, whenever I refrain from drinking
From its cup, I continually crave intoxication.

16. Ever thirsty for the wine in it,
And as if I were drinking heady wine.

17. An oppressor who stubbornly clung to separation until
Neither a visit approaches nor a specter passes by.

18. He used not to be able to be patient with me -
Would that I knew! Why did he incline away from me? Would that I knew!

19. From his repelling all complaint,
And for my blindness, all gratitude.

20. How much white and brown he grasped and made permissible,
And protected the like of them, white and brown!