1. What reminded you of remembrance after
Time had run with the sword of separation between us?

2. It was a bygone era blown away
By the winds of parting, with no escape

3. Can it return after the cord of intimacy was severed
And the means of reunion failed and wore out?

4. The paths to visitation are dispersed with no one
To guide them when they go astray

5. How quickly the days leap in their bounds
And how violent they are when they attack!

6. I used to hope that our union would return
While my eyes shed tears until they were weary

7. By Allah! My heart is still remembering her
Yearning while the messengers of slander arrive

8. I do not falsely claim, but my soul and hers
Were certain when it weakened and declined

9. Previously, I claimed she would reunite
If she came back, but my heart refused

10. It pulled and walked where she turned away
Waiting, reciting the melodies of passion

11. From where her arrow landed and she appeared
A day which time was stingy with, so it shortened

12. Its steps from where it diminished and weakened
We enjoyed a brief union traced in the book of intimacy

13. Two lines, no just one line, then it went astray
If that was a return, then welcome

14. The good news and joy where it gathered
But fate insisted on agony

15. Dealt by the palm of time so it twisted
The days made a sincere promise to it

16. The sorrows settled when they shaded
It ignited for your heart the embers of yearning

17. Which it inflicted on you twice and sparked
It slipped in a clear sign and concealed it

18. Nay, it openly declared what it feared and uncovered
So you sat counting the stars behind her travelling

19. From where it indicated the slender one and pointed
With it, justifications were presented whose journey was long

20. Until the slanderers took it lightly and dictated
So I stabbed the breast of separation with a flooding

21. Tear which it carried then dripped down
Maybe time will return as its era was

22. So you found intimacy plainly when it withdrew