1. I will conceal my love within my heart, and keep it hidden
I will stay up through the night while others sleep

2. I will hope for what I cannot attain from fate
And accept the humiliation from one who shows no mercy

3. I long for your affection, O daughter of Malik
Without it, there is a raging fire of war

4. Appear to me in a dream, and ask
How the bereaved one spent the night when you were gone

5. Do not fret if your people seek my blood
Without you, I am but flesh and blood no more

6. Did you not hear the cooing of doves in the darkness?
From my laments and sorrows they learned their song

7. None remains whom I know, O Abala
Save for a burning liver that makes me ill

8. These are just withered bones and ribs
Upon them an army of foes encamped

9. If I live after we part, I am not the one
Who claimed to be enamored with Abala

10. When sleep takes me, it is the sleep of anguish
I say "Perhaps the apparition will come to greet me"

11. I yearn for those dwellings whenever
A bird sings longingly upon the branch

12. I wept from the bitter separation, though I
Have patience for the stab of a spear, if you but knew