1. I'll approach a land for your land, if hers
Comes near with her palms joined and coverings complete

2. O Fatima, no lover who's alive
Among people, if my soul its swords don't defeat

3. And it settled, with your two flowing eyes
In a soul-unsettling way, if my soul its doves don't deplete

4. You've led me astray from my prayers, though he
Calls to much good - its leader, so discreet

5. Can one who's sick live, after she who's beneath
The heart has been killed by her - her standing's concrete?

6. Can one slain by an unbloodied mute
Whose cheeks are still rosy, by her words, complete?

7. You're but a date palm - though I see
For others its shade and fruits replete

8. No distance made me, or lands, more calm
From Syria - its people almost gone, complete

9. When from them hearts are burnt, livers done
Of the tribe - their order is then effete

10. As sacrifices were slaughtered in town
Fell south their standings - their place concrete

11. I wonder, has Audayeas now changed
Of heated sands - their peaks and cairns effete?

12. As if no tent with pegs was raised
Over it by day with poles complete

13. Two months it stayed, till when the winds
Of saviors blew over it - their gusts replete

14. Hunters came, over it fully
Melted butter dripped - its flames concrete

15. Over it litters of every striped cloak
Whose badges were Caesar's - effete

16. To you we've moved our she-camels' supplies
And needs concealed, to you - their course concrete