1. He set traps for me in the vastness
And caught visions as his prey

2. I saw my body had met its fate
Shining like the sun and moon

3. I was created in the light to unveil it
With beauty that fills the sky

4. There is no light without a likeness
Except for my beloved's smile

5. I asked: Is there in me, o heart that
Might extinguish the darkness?

6. I whispered to my heart with wise words
So the horizon roared with sparks

7. I cried out: What is with the sky?
It said: The danger is in your heart

8. O horizon, did you fear its embers
Beneath the ribs, called the heart?

9. Or did the heat of estrangement ignite
The dryness of affection in you?

10. Or the day love had spent its time
And darkness came after it?

11. It said: We see the face of one
Whose imagination harms your heart

12. Go back, for if the owner of the gazelle
Flirted with the star, it would explode