عَذّبْتني بالعُنْصُرَيْنِ

عَذّبْتني بالعُنْصُرَيْنِ

بلظى حشاي وماءِ عيني

بلظى حشاي وماءِ عيني

You tormented me with the two elements:

You tortured me with your glances,

with the blaze in my breast and the water of my eye.

With the heat of your eyes and the tears in mine.

ألْبَسْتِي سَقَماً أرا

ألْبَسْتِي سَقَماً أرا

كِ لَبِسْتِهِ في الناظرينِ

كِ لَبِسْتِهِ في الناظرينِ

You clothed me in a sickness I see

You made me seem sickly to beholders,

you wearing in your two eyes.

As sickness itself appeared in their gazing.

جسمي هو الطّيْفُ الّذي

جسمي هو الطّيْفُ الّذي

يُدْنِيهِ منكِ طِلابُ ديني

يُدْنِيهِ منكِ طِلابُ ديني

My body is the phantom that

My body is the phantom which

the quest for my due brings close to you.

My longing creates before you.

ولقد خَفِيتُ من الضّنا

ولقد خَفِيتُ من الضّنا

وأمِنْتُ لَحْظَ الكاشحينِ

وأمِنْتُ لَحْظَ الكاشحينِ

And indeed, I have grown invisible from wasting sickness,

And I was hidden from suspicion,

and am safe from the gaze of the spiteful.

Trusting the looks of slanderers.

ولئن سلمتُ من الرّدى

ولئن سلمتُ من الرّدى

فلأنّهُ لم يدر أيْني

فلأنّهُ لم يدر أيْني

And if I have escaped death,

And if I escaped perdition,

it is because death did not know where I was.

It was because none knew where I was.