كيفَ السلوُّ وأنتَ تعلمُ أنَّني
لا أستطيعُ إلى السُّلوِّ سَبيلا
How could I forget, when you know that I
How can there be forgetting, when you yourself know that I
can find no way to forget?
can find no path at all that leads me to forget?
والنارُ يُؤلمُها حشايَ فحرُّها
وتزيدُ قلبي في الغليلِ غَليلا
Even fire is pained by my innards; its heat
The fire itself is scalded by my burning entrails, and its heat
adds still more anguish to my heart’s burning anguish.
adds to my heart, already parched, thirst upon thirst.
نارٌ من اللحظاتِ مني لم تُرد
عيناك إلا أن أكونَ قتيلا
A fire born of glances. Of me, never desired
A fire born of glances — of me they have wanted,
your eyes aught but that I should be slain.
your two eyes, nothing at all but that I fall slain.
لو أنَّ هجركَ كانَ وَصلاً كلَّهُ
مَع ما أقاسي منكَ كان قليلا
Even if all your forsaking were reunion,
Were all your shunning turned to union, every last part of it,
compared with what I suffer from you, that would be little.
set against what I suffer from you, it would still be little.
Sol 5.6