ضاقَ صَدري بما أجنُّ وما ضا

قَ بشَيءٍ إلا بضيقِ الصدورِ

My breast is straitened by what I bear and naught

Straitens it save the straitening of the breasts

كنتُ حمَّلتُها أُموري فلَما

أثقَلَتها حملتُ عَنها أُموري

I loaded them with my affairs but when

They burdened them, I unloaded them of my affairs

واعتَزَلتُ الأحياءَ أرتقبُ المَو

تَ أو اللطفَ من لَطيفٍ خَبيرِ

And I withdrew from the living, hoping for death

Or kindness from the Kind One, the Experienced

فلعلَّ القبورَ تَندى إذا كا

نَ الندى عندَ أهلِهِ في القُبورِ

So perhaps the graves may be dewed when

The dew is upon its people in the graves

ثم لمَّا استَقامَ ذلكَ منِّي

بِتَوالي أيامِهِ والشهورِ

Then when that was habitual from me

In succession of its days and months

جاءَ مَن ليسَ يَسمعُ القولَ إن قل

تُ إذا العُذرُ قامَ بالتَّعذيرِ

He came whom the speech hears not if you should say

When the excuse arose with the apologies

قال بَيني وبينَكَ الحكمُ أوفا

لجود هذا القاضي وذا ابنُ سرورِ

He said between me and you is the judgment or be

Generous, this judge and the son of gladness

ذاك يَقضي عليكَ أو ذاك يَقضي

عنكَ فاختَر ولج في تَخييري

That one judges against you or that one judges

For you so choose and plunge into my choosing

ورأى وجهَ مالِه أنَّه عن

دَكَ إذ كنتَ عندَه ميسوري

And he saw the aspect of his money that with

You when you were with him, easy