إِنَّ القَوافي لَم تُنِمكَ وَإِنَّما

مَحَقَتكَ حَتّى صِرتَ ما لا يوجَدُ

The rhymes did not make you drowsy, rather

Truly, the rhymes did not merely lull you to sleep, but rather,

They exhausted you until you became non-existent

They effaced you until you became a thing that exists no more.

فَكَأَنَّ أُذنَكَ فوكَ حينَ سَمِعتَها

وَكَأَنَّها مِمّا سَكِرتَ المُرقِدُ

So it was as if your ear deceived you when you heard them

As if your ear became a mouth the moment you heard them,

And as if they were from what intoxicated the rested

And as if they were the sedative of your intoxication.