1. I am one whose ribs are folded around passion
Easier than it the heavy rain is unleashed

2. I hoped in vain that reticence would benefit me
Deceiving my torment, but reticence seldom helps

3. I had resolved with fortitude to show patience
But after intention, resolve betrays intent

4. Its lids graced it with prose like scattered pearls
And after it, verse will grace it like strung pearls

5. For my soul I wish union, not loss after its death
So I'll have no news or knowledge after demise

6. If ever thirsty someday, the rain won't come
If ever lost someday, no star will rise

7. May God erase this life if what I see is true
Its past fanciful, its future a dream

8. My patience claims to be my strength
My truest thought is it will prove itself a lie

9. Not only the rain counts the ruins of encampments
Not only my tears and darkness recount its house

10. And we came despite the nights to settlements
Settlements, though at their full moon betrayal lurks

11. They were a rising for moons of beauty
But now on the paths of youth are to me stars sunken

12. And I yearn for the sum of weeping over them
But before whom does composure spill away?

13. The traces of my kiss, it fears their permanence
My dear, above the water, marks do not endure

14. Dazzling with the radiance of gentle mirth
It avoids with its veil a blemish when veiled

15. Its frown is dawn, its elation nightfall
Its glances war, its words are peace

16. It recoils from answering, for the sin of it
So do not neglect, my soul, what sin has killed

17. For it hearts alone are wont to return
Eyelids by which no, their returning sickness returns

18. I obeyed in its command, and it consented
I opposed those who blamed, and they were opposed

19. It captivates my soul and sickens my body
When my soul is captivated, the body knows no peace

20. It deposits in hearing the pearls of its speech
And when my eyes wept at that, the composition ceased

21. My love pleased it, so my love remains
My sickness delights it, so the sickness persists

22. Ask the planets about my eye, for your sight suffices as witness
And in your eyes, my dear, lies knowledge of mine

23. An orphan when his beloved dies
Not all loss of parents is orphanhood

24. By my life! You have seen clearly, if insight avails
And truly you have heard, if the deaf can hear

25. Who blames it, reason is but to follow it
Your path, but sometimes reason is overcome

26. It recoils from my union, fearing the sin
So do not recoil, for refusal itself is the sin

27. And our neighbor Nu'man, so living is blissful
Its seasons bliss, and our isolation bliss

28. Though most of my days were followed by sorrow
Over them, yet they were accepted by blame

29. I accept the unjust judgment against me
So the judge is not angry, and the adversary satisfied

30. They say why do you not wear patience as a shield
Of what use after the arrow has sped?

31. If she steals a hearing that makes me pine
Then in its wake, a shower of tears like shooting stars

32. I have from my tears' hoard a ladle full
And were it not for resolve, it would have held abundance