نَوْمي على ظَهْرِ الفراشِ مُنَغَّصُ

نَوْمي على ظَهْرِ الفراشِ مُنَغَّصُ

واللَّيلُ فيه زيادةٌ لا تنقصُ

واللَّيلُ فيه زيادةٌ لا تنقصُ

My sleep upon the bed is troubled,

My sleep on the bed is disturbed

and the night grows longer, never shorter,

And the night with it has no decrease

من عادياتٍ كالذئابٍ تذاءبَتْ

من عادياتٍ كالذئابٍ تذاءبَتْ

وَسَرَتْ على عَجَلٍ فما تتَرَبّصُ

وَسَرَتْ على عَجَلٍ فما تتَرَبّصُ

because of raiders that, like wolves, attacked from every side,

Of mosquitoes that shriek and buzz

and hurried along by night, without waiting.

Swiftly swarming, not pausing to appease

جَعَلَتْ دمي خمراً تُداوِمُ شُرْبَها

جَعَلَتْ دمي خمراً تُداوِمُ شُرْبَها

مُسْتَرْخِصاتٍ منه ما لا يُرْخصُ

مُسْتَرْخِصاتٍ منه ما لا يُرْخصُ

They made my blood a wine they keep on drinking,

They make my blood their wine, sipping all night

treating as cheap what in it cannot be cheapened.

Extracting from me more than I can lease

فتَرى البعوضَ مغنّياً برَبابِهِ

فتَرى البعوضَ مغنّياً برَبابِهِ

والبقُّ تشربُ والبراغثُ ترقصُ

والبقُّ تشربُ والبراغثُ ترقصُ

So you see the mosquito singing with his rebab,

So you see the mosquito singing with his fiddle

and the bedbugs drink while the fleas dance.

As the bedbug drinks and the flea dances with glee