1. Her absence has lasted long, and her aloofness persists,
My tears have returned to me, and so has their pouring.

2. Although she has purified my love for her,
Her covenant remains steadfast and binding.

3. I looked at her once when she was still a child,
As she grew into a young woman, her breasts appeared.

4. They dressed her in chainmail when she was blossoming,
Though it does not suit her graceful figure.

5. Another look I stole, but found no joy in it,
Among the red camels and black sheep of this land.

6. Whenever I visited her town in the past,
The land would shrink before me, and the horizon drew near.

7. With robes white as chalk, her companions would come,
Renewing their youth, had they but means to restore it.

8. Blessed with comfort, knowing no misery in life,
For one who enjoys it, such is immortality on earth.

9. Immortal he remains, so long as for your people,
He proves a neighbor, but does any soul last forever?

10. The one I gave my love to since she was a child,
Before her breasts made themselves known.

11. Yet she has slain a soul though free of guilt,
For she is mindless, with none to restrain her.

12. She absolves my deep grudges when we meet,
While hers remain unjustly harbored against me.

13. When others torment me, I pardon them,
Though that would quench her burning thirst for revenge.

14. I give her my deepest passion, though I know,
Rejection is my destined fate from her hands.

15. Ah, would that I knew, after us, if she will remain
True to her covenant, or break her vows like mine!

16. When my soul recalls her, it shakes and softens,
Melting away everything solid within me.

17. If what lies in me were mountains, it would crumble them,
However unyielding her harshness is in this world.

18. Even if she threatens utter destruction,
Or lights a fire whose fuel is my corpse,

19. I refuse escape from my sorrows, remaining
Sleepless throughout the night, as the flames rise toward me.

20. Thus I greet the dawn torn in two,
One soul sick with despair from which no respite comes,

21. One still hoping for reunion after our estrangement,
So it beautifies itself to further enrage her envious rivals.

22. When alone, my soul falls to pieces,
Like a string of pearls scattering, each one cut off.

23. Her despair never grieved me, so comfort comes with despair,
Her kindness never helped me, so kindness is useless.

24. Thus I subdue my soul - oh, you are beyond reach!
While the secrets of one untouched remain obscured.