أهزُّكُمُ بأشعاري وأَنتُم
جَمادٌ لا تهزُّكُمُ السِياطُ
I stir you with my poems, yet you are
lifeless matter that even whips cannot stir.
تَغَيَّرَ حُسنُ وجهِكُمُ لشعري
كأنّ الشعرَ عندَكُمُ ضُراطُ
The beauty of your faces changes at my verse,
as though poetry, to you, were mere farting.
Sol 5.6