1. After the coats and saddles could not
My eyelids seduce the dunes and mound

2. I used to call him, and he’d respond
Today I call him, yet no response is found

3. You are my fate in time, I own
No portion of you, for time is bound

4. Think not my tears flowed, but my soul
Upon you from my eyes does melt and drown

5. If homes by tears were built, their halls
With tears and hearts would abound

6. Believe not that the life of one departed
Is bliss, for after parting, no bliss is found

7. My sin is parting, so if I gain your nearness
I’ll repent from parting, astounded

8. Of all whose dinar resides in his palm
While good from him is strange, astounded

9. Whether he rose or fell, his reach and gain
Is to you, while he stays near, astounded

10. Like the full moon in the night of completeness, its stars
Appear, but in the night of loss, confounded

11. All from the straight path dissidents
Why then are the blues given renown?

12. You have of them in heresy, no carnage
A trickle of folk erect and young abound

13. O you who stir my fervor with your writ
Whereby your gentle torment gives me joy profound

14. As if from ardor and breeze, like incense
A scent from you spreads, perfumed compound

15. It quenches and contents whom its purpose seeks
As if its draft were brewed and wound

16. It imbibed the intellects of listeners in its draft
So the drinker and the drunk to you were bound

17. They vie for minds when plundered, and naught
Else is plunderer or plundered, confounded

18. It marshaled for us the army of eloquence progressing
And from the lines its banners were unfurled

19. So astounding an army victorious, naught between it
And listeners, evermore, of battle held compound

20. And the sins of my life in your separation abundant
So if I remain with them, then no reproof resound

21. Submit! And gain the praise you’ve earned
From intellects’ hands your poured gift astound

22. If the value lessened one’s value, man
For your worth the welcome and temptation abound!