تألفت طيفَ غزالِ الحرَم

فواصلني بعد ما قد صرَم

I was visited by the ghost of the deer of the sanctuary

Then he avoided me after he had become thin

وما زلتُ أقنعُ من يله

بما تجتنيه بنانُ الحلم

And I still pretend to the one who reproaches me

With what the fingers of dreams collects

بنفسي خيالٌ على رقبةٍ

ألم به الشوقُ فيما زعم

Myself is a specter on a neck

That longing has pained it, as alleged

أتاني يُجاذبُ أردافَه

من البُهرِ تحت كُسوفِ الظُلَم

He came to me pulling his buttocks

From the ocean under the veil of darkness

تَمجُّ سوالِفُه مسكةً

وعنبرة رِيقُه والنسم

His conversations smelled sweetly

And his saliva ambergris and breeze

تضمَّخَ من بعدِ تجميرهِ

فطابَ من القرنِ حتى القدم

He was saturated after his burning

So he smelled good from the horn to the foot

يقول ونازعته ثوبه

على أن يقول لشيء نعم

He said and I disputed his clothes

In order to say yes to something

فغضَّ الجفونَ على خجلةٍ

وأعرض إعراضةَ المُحتشِم

So he frowned out of shyness

And turned away the aversion of the modest

فشبَّكت كفي على خجلةٍ

وأعرض أعراضةَ المُحتشِم

So I intertwined my palm on his shyness

And turned away the aversion of the modest

فشبَّكت كفي على كفه

وأصغيتُ ألثم دُراً بفَم

So I intertwined my palm on his palm

And I listened, kissing a pearl with my mouth

فنهنهني دفعَ لا مُؤيسٍ

بجدٍّ ولا مُطمعٍ معتزمٍ

So he discouraged me from pushing without despair

Seriously or with an intended greed

إذا ما هممتُ فأدنيتهُ

تثنى وقال لي الويلُ لم

Whenever I intended and brought him closer

He bent, and woe to me, he said to me

فما زلتُ أبسُطُه مازحاً

وأُفرطُ في اللهو حتى ابتسم

So I still make fun of him

And overdo the nonsense until he smiles

وحكمني الريمُ في نفسه

بشيءٍ ولكنه مكتتَم

And the viewer judged him in himself

With something but it is concealed

فواهاً لذلك من طارقٍ

على أنَّ ما كان أبقى سَقَم

Woe to that visitor

On the basis that what was is the most enduring sickness