1. Love taught me the bliss of sleeplessness
Beneath the branches intertwined with leaves

2. I cannot close my eyelids in slumber
While hearts question mouths and eyes

3. How lovely a night that drew its curtains
Over homes, gardens, and roads

4. We confided our secrets but kept them hidden
While we were in the garden like two stars in the sky

5. And the breeze strokes the branches gently
Which is the greeting of flowers and fragrance

6. Her hands toyed with my hair for a while and my hands
Fiddled with her ring, necklace, and earring

7. Until we embraced and she lowered her gaze shyly
From the stars peering through the dusk

8. My embrace remained until she closed
Her eyelids and fell asleep on my shoulder

9. So I stayed still, holding my breath, bursting
From her breaths a home free of anxiety

10. Nothing made me happier in her embrace
Between arms except the rise of dawn

11. So I rose, pulling trails damp with dew
And tinted by the afterglow

12. And said: O you sleepers, have mercy
Won't you fall in love and taste the bliss of sleeplessness