1. They say - and they may lie - so beware
Ill omens come if their barking spokesman's not obeyed

2. You’ve wearied us, neither pleased with generosity
Nor ceasing to complain, though you’re the truthful one

3. You’ve attained the quintessence of love from us, so blame us
Though we’ve done no wrong - we just tasted it

4. You found us at peace and caused dissent between us
As the seam splits the leather, though its stitches held it closed

5. He brings it back in his throat if he's not downcast
A bellyful from the entrails - his gullet distended

6. If he aims at the chief, missiles keep pace with him
Like the slingstones from the thrower's pouch pursuing him

7. He drags behind him a train like a crescent moon
Whose banners none has ripped, its flagpoles unbroken

8. When a man doesn't give as much affection as I gave him
Let him know that I shall leave him

9. No good in the love of one who's forced to show it
Nor in a friend who doesn't match you

10. If money doesn't oblige him to be generous
Either through family duties or a like-minded comrade

11. You refused out of caution and firmness combined
Money allures only according to its realities

12. When wealth brings benefit, its surplus creates
Rights - and the hostile one correspondingly agrees

13. And lifts the sword-hilt clear of his ankle-bone
Though, were the scabbard longer, it would reach his shoulder

14. Bless what Leyla's son gave with good intent
And what Leyla's son gave in silence matches it