1. A glance flowed, my heart followed its traces
It shed inhibition, so no blame for its stumbling

2. Oh passion of yours that seized me and my heart
A man is not condemned for his neighbor’s slip

3. A malady hides from the doctor its whereabouts
If not for a fever that raged from his thoughts

4. Tears drew a line above the yellow of his cheek
Making it like an engraving on his gold coin

5. Alas, his heart has strayed from levelheadedness
A reason that bars the bird from its nest

6. They said inhibition will make you pay for foolishness
And the harvest of my life is in the sprouting of his inhibition

7. If I don’t die before inhibition, then when
A lover appears to surrender in his fleeing

8. Like a drowning man saved, reaching the shore
Only to find lions lurking nearby

9. Inhibition is a page that recites to us
What beauty had kept secret of its mysteries

10. Who do I have that is pleased and angered like
A doe befriended, then startled by its hooves

11. Intoxicated, his tongue stumbles in talk
Stumbles of a leg in cups of his wine

12. The moles exude a musk in the page of his cheek
I shed asceticism from its perfumer

13. Moses prophesied beauty, but it was
Harut, not Aaron, among its supporters

14. If I said he is the Converser, his cheek
Shows you the miracle of the Friend with its fire

15. A garden forbidden of its fruits and my poems
Of its leaves, and thorns sprouted from his inhibition

16. Oh one from Mashrafiyya, his window made me err
And forget what is in its edge and deceit

17. My feelings were lit by the fire of passion for you
And tinder does not complain of the heat of its sparks

18. You have ruined my heart, so I found rest from wishes
What happiness in bearing the hatred of the hater