1. It is time for me to bear being apart from you
And my passion will turn into ashes

2. And you will come asking eagerly
About my absence, claiming to be sleepless

3. And you will say: Where are you? Do you forget?
And you will bring back to me a past time

4. Or wasn't I spinning and hoping
For drops, so you would set aflame?

5. You plant promises in the barrenness of my life
And you place locusts among the seeds

6. I had to say: farewell
And against my will I cannot turn back

7. However I want you not to think
That I have betrayed or done wrong in belief

8. Maybe you will claim that my distance
From you is the least (agreeable) or (felicitous)

9. Or you will say: that the starvation of my burning
Has found with another fulfillment and refuge

10. Be assured, I have nothing but amusement
That I repeat and oppose

11. I may call the call of (Qays) but every
(Qays) and every (Layla) called

12. I have my share of frivolities, but
You will not see me wanting more

13. I was no (Shahrayar) but the companionship
Of your image made me (Shahrazad)

14. My love for you was a habit and intimacy
And I will forget you, a habit and intimacy