كانت ليالينا قصُرنَ بوصلكُم

حتى رماها هَجرُكم فأطالَها

Our nights were brief with your companionship

Until your estrangement made them long

وإذا الدموعُ جَمَدنَ عند جَفَائكم

أهوى لها حّرُّ الهوى فأسألها

And when tears congealed at your aloofness

The fervor of passion melted them to flow again

لو شاءَ مَن شَغَلَ الفؤدا بِحُبِّكُم

لأعادَ أيامَ الحِمى وأدالَها

If He who preoccupies hearts with love of you willed

He would bring back the days of intimacy and shorten them