كيف أنم النوى وأظلمها

وكلُّ أخلاق من أحب نوى

How can I sleep while darkness falls

How can I blame separation and do it wrong,

When all the morals of the one I love are gone

When every trait of the one I love is estrangement?

قد كان يكفي هوى أضيق به

فكيف إذ حل نوى وهوى

Even the slightest passion would suffice

A burdensome passion alone would have been enough to bear,

So how can I rest now that love and desire have come

So how will it be now that both separation and desire have struck?