1. My gazelle with his beauty improves my good mood in this vacation
Yet his beauty surpassed it with the clothes he wore

2. Embroidered, but from his locks
When he saw his eyelids lined with kohl

3. He came to me and inclined his cheek to my mouth
So I started plucking from him the rose of shyness

4. And the air stretched a veil from its clouds
When it imagined the meteors to be like eyeliner

5. We got up and there was no notion but of peril
No step but towards death

6. And the eye drags a tail of its tears
And the heart drags trails of anguish

7. I task my soul despite my knowledge of its dignity
To tread on eggs or carry embers

8. But I do not care about the meadows
Or the elevations there, I am not celebrating

9. Until we reached the haven’s destination
My companion, if you could see what I have done

10. I kiss from a branch to a foot
And join the embrace from a chest to a shoulder

11. Passionate longing trails an embrace
From us upon us, neither short nor long

12. He kept letting me hear his eloquent speech
More subtle than my words to him or my flirtation

13. I wished my limbs were ears to hear him
Even if they bore the affliction of being cut off

14. And a tear of affection flows upon my body
Did you ever see dew falling on a barren land?

15. I attained what I never dreamed of
Nor did the hopes aspire to

16. And the night passed as its planets hid
When dawn intended to sneak upon an infant

17. I do not drag my tail to erase his footsteps
Rather I stand to erase the steps with kisses

18. O night that has passed saying
Do not string me with your first days