1. The fire of longing and separation burned me
After losing my home and children

2. My head turned white
After it had been intensely black

3. And I remembered Ebla when she came
To bid me farewell, grief and passion manifest

4. As she shed tears of separation's anxiety
Flowing with agony and vigil

5. I said: Cease your tears
Though my heart melted in sorrow, my agony increasing

6. Oh what an age that assailed me
With arrows that pierced my heart's core

7. Yet I'm like a sharpened sword which, when
More polished, triumphs on the day of battle

8. The turns of fate have seasoned me until
They set me on the path of integrity

9. I met heroes in every war
And defeated men in every valley

10. Leaving knights fallen by a stab
From a spear describing heads on the stake

11. And a sword I've owned since ancient
Days of Ad, from olden ages

12. And I conquered kings east and west
And surpassed peers on the day of contention

13. My patience for being apart from Ghazub waned
He who had been my asset and reliance

14. As did Oroba and Maysara my protector
When the steeds clash

15. Soon I will release them
From the hands of foes and the envious