1. You have not replaced her abandonment with her affection
Except that she was miserly with you

2. Seek solace for your grief with imagination
Perhaps fantasy will represent her to you

3. Alas! You will never enjoy the phantom of her image
As long as your eyes stay awake for her

4. You have burdened yourself beyond what you were used to
Of the fatigue of passion, so you grew tired carrying it

5. O my friend, by Allah, if you come to her abode
Stand at the meadows asking about its people

6. All of its butterflies are gone from me, so I have
A heart that stayed in its sadness and its plains

7. And whenever her beauty tempted you to love her
Silence your heart lest you get struck by her arrows

8. And if she claimed the perfection of beauty entirely
Submit, for she has demonstrated it by her proofs

9. Do you see the nights of union returning one night
Where some of it satisfies for all of it

10. And my hope in life is to expand my desire
Yet its paths have narrowed for me

11. The days are not to blame in my view for what
They did, and the forbearing pardons them in their ignorance

12. How much should I blame them when the benevolence of
The beginning of the era did not make me forget its evil doing

13. Authority has established itself in Hama because it is
Of its people and because he is of its people

14. Do not argue forgiveness from its ethics
And beware that the swords tempt you with their sharpening