1. Each day a journey and an abode
And farewell to those I loved, and peace

2. The hands of destiny cast us as arrows
As though a bow, and we the arrows

3. Send no message with the dove
In my heart is agony and passion from it

4. For lovers, books are like
What awakens, while doves are doves

5. Who will grant me hunting gazelles in Mecca
When hunting in the sacred land is taboo

6. No sandgrouse moved or sang
Except it seemed to you fading and plucked

7. In his eyes a paradise and hell
And in his eyelids health and sickness

8. I did not shoot that gazelle but it stopped me
From its field, old age and Islam