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My yearnings have overwhelmed me due to your absence,

غلبت علي لبعدكم أشجاني

1. My yearnings have overwhelmed me due to your absence,
And my eyelids have dried after you all.

١. غَلَبَتْ عَلَيَّ لِبُعْدِكُمْ أَشْجانِي
وَجَفا الكَرَى مِنْ بَعْدِكُمْ أَجْفانِي

2. Between my ribs lies a burning anguish,
Quenching it has exhausted the floods.

٢. وَتَضَرَّمَتْ بَيْنَ الجَوَانِحِ لَوْعَةٌ
إِطْفاؤُها أَعْيَا عَلى الطُّوفانِ

3. Alas! Patience stays far from me after that,
While I am distant from family and home.

٣. هَيْهاتَ يَدْنُو الصّبْرُ مِنِّيَ بَعْدَهَا
وأَنَا البَعيدُ الأَهْلِ والأَوْطَانِ

4. If Mount Thahlan endured some of what
I have been burdened with, its peaks would crumble.

٤. لَوْ أنَّ ثَهْلاناً تَحَمَّلَ بَعْضَ ما
حُمِّلْتُهُ خَرَّتْ ذُرَى ثَهْلانِ

5. Captivity and coercion with no rest between them,
And estrangement from my family and home.

٥. أَسْرٌ وقَسْرٌ لا قَرَارَ عَلَيْهِما
وَتَغَرُّبٌ عَنْ أسْرَتِي ومَكَانِي

6. And amidst this, how much sorrow,
Exposed grief, passion and disgrace!

٦. هَذا وَكَمْ أَثْناء هَذا مِنْ أَسىً
فَضَح العَزَاء ومِنْ هَوىً وَهَوانِ

7. And that is trivial compared to the taste of separation,
For separation is the second annihilation.

٧. ويَهُونُ ذَلِكَ لِلْفِراقِ وطَعْمِهِ
إنَّ الفِراق هُوَ الحِمامُ الثَّانِي