1. Your lover is afflicted by his love for you
And if he were to die of love for you, he would not dislike love

2. The gossipers' eyes are fixed on him
Staring intensely until their eyelids and brows ache

3. What is it to them if his sickness returns to him
For it is only the heart that has returned to the body

4. A young man's feet follow his heart in pursuit
So why did the envious make a fuss when I visited him at night

5. Far be it from that beauty to wear grief
Far be it from that light to set in the west

6. I see every part of you like a heart in fervor
And like an eyelid sending forth moist pearls

7. So do not fear any fever or its heat
It makes affectionate if it visits his bed absently

8. And if I embraced him and then turned to him
I would have taken neither an easy nor a difficult route to him

9. And if the sky matched its full moon to his face
It would have sent the shooting stars to visit him as sympathizers