1. The vine spoke revelation, flushed red,
To God a lexicon's complaint, how does it Arabize?

2. Do the vine's branches and its face
Explain to it how the hidden pronoun?

3. Optimism once gave birth to hope—
So I praised the outcome of my quest

4. But when I examined assumptions, watching closely,
I found their state was to falsify

5. You began with kindness, but when I thanked you
You disowned me as if I were guilty

6. And every gallant youth who faces troubles with resolve
Has an approach regarding those who for him have an approach

7. Can love fell the generous whose heart
Is knowing of what comes and what to avoid?

8. I waited until knowledge made clear that I
With fate one day ascend and one day fall

9. And I matched remarkable ends to their beginnings
Proded by the wink of the fickle cupbearer

10. And I knew despair protects honor
And that I will soon ignore the speck when I wish

11. You left me amid assumptions, distinguishing
Puzzles of a matter, testing

12. He draws me near whom you favored over me
With my love, and distances me so I cannot draw near

13. So God has ordained what I lost of you
And affairs shift and change

14. After you I seek rain from passing clouds
That may pour from the rains, should they yield rain

15. When I see lightning I overlook it
And say: when lightning flashes, it vanishes

16. If an opportunity arose, I did not take it
And turned away fearing what I anticipate

17. I refrained from the beauty of hope, so I will not
Return to it, for time is a disciplinarian