1. O pallor of sunset, what god
Died in your wounded eyelid years ago?

2. What dawn on your forehead shone virgin
When night strangled my love, my love?

3. For in your tender voice are a thousand
Sighs surging, sigh upon sigh.

4. And on your innocent face a pallor
Like the innocent dawn, its light clouded.

5. What is it that twists your lips
In the majesty of a smile or god?

6. O springtime of love, your spring
Flooded by night and dawn's fragrance.

7. Brush night aside, O Saad, and let
Your sweet dawn bloom in its youth.

8. Everything in your youth is a wedding
Sung by dawn and sunset's mouth.

9. Thirsty lips want you like a cup,
Genius never sullied by lips.

10. I love you, Saad, I love you singing,
The stream echoes its flowing back.

11. I love something on your lips confused
In the parting of lips, lost.

12. I love you however you were wounds
In my ribs, straying, or prayer.

13. O gentle heart upon it
A virgin's shade, O gentle one.