أَرَأَيتَني فيما أَراكَ طَروقا
إِلا كَما أَشكو إِلَيكَ مَشوقا
Do you see me as I see you, an alluring sight
Except as I complain to you full of longing?
أَم كانَ شَوقي مثلَ طَيفِكَ كاذِباً
فعمَرتَ بَينَ الكاذِبينَ طَريقا
Was my yearning like your phantom, lying
So you lived between liars a path?
احبِس عليكَ فلَيسَ تَخفقُ غيرَها
عَينايَ مادامَ الفُؤادُ خَفوقا
Restrain my eyes upon you, for none other flutter
My eyes as long as my heart is throbbing
يا طرفُ كَيفَ جسَرتَ تَسرقُ نَظرَةً
وعليكَ والٍ يُظهِر المَسروقا
O eyelids, how dare you steal a glance
When a jealous guardian reveals what's stolen?
بينَ البُكاءِ إِلى السُّهادِ مقامَةٌ
تَتَعمَّدُ التَّغريقَ والتَّحريقا
Between crying and wakefulness is a sojourn
That purposely seeks drowning and burning
ومُهَفهَفٍ حَبَس الحياء بِخدِّه
دمَه فصارَ دَمي بِذاكَ طَليقا
With cheeks that modesty has held back
His blood, so by that mine was set free
هَذا يَروقُ وذا يُراقُ وإنَّما
هَذا يَروقُ صَفاؤهُ ليُريقا
This is pleasing and that provoking, but
This, its clarity pleases to make one melt
يَبكي كَما أَبكي إِذا عايَنتُه
عَمداً لِكَيلا تعرفَ المَعشوقا
He cries as I cry when I see him
Deliberately, lest the beloved be known
وإِذا نَظرتَ إِلى الصَّبابَةِ والأَسى
والصدِّ والشَّكوى رأيتَ فُروقا
And when you look to innocence and sorrow
Barrier and complaint, you see differences
يا مَن تُحاكي الراحُ مِن أَوصافِه
لَوناً وطَعماً وَجنَتَين وَريقا
O you whose traits the breeze copies
In color, taste, and two gardens and saliva
قُم فَاسقِنيها حينَ طارَ شَرارها
في الكَأسِ فانقَلَبَ الرَّحيقُ حَريقا
Arise and serve it to me when its embers have flown
In the cup and the wine has turned to cinder
كَأَبي الخَصيبِ وأنتَ مَرزوقٌ بِه
تَدعوهُ عِندَ ندائِه مَرزوقا
Like my father al-Khasib while you are sustained by Him
You call Him when He calls sustained
أمَّا رَفيقُ المالِ مِنه إِلى العُلى
والمَجد معتَزِمٌ فساءَ رَفيقا
As for the companion of money to supremacy
And glory, determined, so an evil companion
وكأنَّما صَحِبَ النَّدى يَده عَلى
تَفريقِها شرطاً بِذاكَ وَثيقا
As if the companion of blessings shook his hand
On parting with it, conditional by that bond
لا تَستَبين بِموعدٍ لفظاتُه
حتَّى تَراهُ بفعلِه مَسبوقا
You do not distinguish his words with a promised time
Until you see him in his action preceded
فتَكادُ أَن تَهمي سَحائبُ جودِه
مِن قَبل أَن تُبدي لهنَّ بُروقا
You almost think the clouds of his generosity
Rain the rights before showing them lightning
حتَّى مَطرنَ لهُ الحقوقَ وإنَّما
لَتَخالُه يَقضي بهنَّ حُقوقا
Until they rained the rights for him, but
You think he fulfils them rightfully
شَغَلَت مَحاسِنُه الصُّدورَ ولَم يَكن
في الكُتبِ تَخريجاً ولا تَعليقا
His virtues preoccupied hearts and there was not
In books an interpretation or commentary
وزكَت مَودَّتُه وأثمرَ غَرسُها
عَيشاً عَلى طولِ الزمانِ أنيقا
His love thrived and its plantation fruited
A life for the length of time elegant
فَجعلتُ أَطمعُ في الأنامِ بِمِثلِها
أُخرى فأتخذُ العدوَّ صَديقا
I thus began to covet the likes of it from people
And took the enemy as a friend
أَفنى نَداكَ الأَرض قبلَ فَنائِها
لكِن أَراهُ عَلى السَّماءِ شَفيقا
Your help exhausted the land before its exhaustion
But I see it in the sky compassionate
مِما يعلِّقُ همَّه في همَّةٍ
لتَعوقَ طَرفاً أن يَرى العَيوقا
From what attaches its concern to a concern
To distract a glance from seeing perversion
