1. You betrayed me, and if not for the betrayal, I'd have no excuse
You intended it, though it went against my purpose

2. You found room for harm, and so did I
No day was ever too narrow for me or for you

3. I do not complain of boredom from you
For you left, by God's grace, when separation pleased me

4. If you call for patience, so
It came to us without calling, as we desire patience

5. If you thank the wisdom of distance, to intention
Upon us the granting that gratitude cannot establish

6. I thought endurance bitter in taste
But when I tasted it, I knew desire is the bitter one

7. Be as you wish, for we are as we desire
We are all awake, and that intoxication is gone

8. How many were lost there, and morning
With neither branch nor morning, neither branch nor moon

9. If Zeid's turning you from our union
You missed nothing, so did Amr bar us

10. If you've forgotten the pact, ask
To inform you, did a day of it pass without mention?

11. Desire concludes with us and you, all of us
Alike, but the evil began with you

12. No evil in a matter we knew with you
Until the secret and the open were equal

13. No eyelid sheds tears for me
No liver burns with embers within

14. No love increased our longing each night
No solace of days, their promise Doomsday

15. We were as passion desired, as though
From the intermixing of water and wine between us

16. How many nights whose darkness gloom didn't spoil
How many nights the dawn didn't mar with separation

17. Then that loyalty bores you
No matter, betrayal's character is betrayal

18. Though I find rest in that
My hand is wearied of you, and its rest is empty

19. But only separation meets your abandonment
No reproach passes, nor abandonment