1. قد طال بي في الطريق الحالك السفرُ

    وما على الأفق لا نجم ولا قمرُ

    My journey along the pitch-dark road has indeed grown long.

    And on the horizon there is neither star nor moon.

  2. تمضي السنون وخطوي في تعثره

    ورجعه في صخور الليل ينكسر

    The years pass, while my tread keeps faltering,

    and its echo shatters among the rocks of night.

  3. حتى حدائي نيوب الليل تمضغه

    وبين أصدائه الأشجان تعتصر

    Even my camel-driving song is chewed by the fangs of night,

    and amid its echoes, sorrows are wrung out.

  4. وبين جفني آمال محلقة

    وزادها سهر يفضي به سهر

    And between my eyelids, hopes soar,

    and their sustenance is sleeplessness brought on by sleeplessness.

  5. أسامر الشوق فيها.. وهي مرهقة

    ما عاد يرقصها في ومضه السمر

    I keep longing company within them, weary as they are;

    nighttime conversation no longer sets them dancing in its glimmer.

  6. والأفق يعصف بالآمال .. ضائعة

    وبين أيديه أحلى العمر .. ينصهر

    And the horizon lashes at the lost hopes,

    and in its hands, the sweetest part of life melts away.