جمرات حبكَ قد خبونَ خمودا

وسيول دمعكَ قد نضبنَ جمودا

The embers of your love have faded into oblivion,

And the floods of your tears have dried up and frozen.

اضحى فؤادكَ في الصبابة فاتراً

من بعد ما اصلت لظاه وقودا

Your heart has grown indifferent in youth,

After it had attained the most intense fire.

صمت اللسانُ وكان اطرب ناطقٍ

يحبو النجوم قلائداً وعقودا

The tongue has fallen silent, though it was the most melodious speaker,

Sending necklaces and strings of stars shimmering.

هدأت جوانحك التي ياطالما

خفقت فكان خفوقها مشهودا

Your wings that once pulsated ardently

Have now become still, their throbbing witnessed no more.

اعطيتَ بعد الهجر بعضٍ علالةٍ

ذهبَت بجمركَ فاستحلتَ جليدا

After separation you showed some weakness,

Allowing your embers to die down into icy indifference.

قد كنتَ بالاشواق تبراً لامعاً

فغدوتَ من بعد الوصال حديدا

You were illuminated with passion’s fire,

Now after the union you’ve turned into iron.

قد كنتَ نوراً يكسب الليل السنى

فخبا فأَلفيتُ البواكرَ سُودا

You were a light that gave the night beauty,

Now it has faded and I find the dawns are black.

يا بخلُ مذ فارقتني احرمتني

غَرداً بهِ عيشي يدومُ رغيدا

O how miserly you've been since you left me,

Depriving my life of its song that would last.

لو دام هجري كنت اربح غادة

ملكَت على طول الزمان عميدا

If this estrangement had continued

You would have ruled time eternal, sublime.

مسَّت فؤادي رحمةٌ لشقائهِ

أجنتَهُ من روض الخدود ورودا

Pity has touched my heart for its misery,

Rescuing it from the garden of cheeks and roses.

اعجب بوردٍ ناضرٍ مذ نالهُ

زالت نضارتُهُ فاصبح عُودا

I’m astonished how a radiant rose once plucked

Loses its glow and becomes mere kindling.

اتهمتِ قلبي يا ظلوم بوصمةٍ

لا زال عنها ما حييتُ بعيدا

You unjustly accused my heart of a blemish

From which it will now remain distanced all my life.

يا ليت حكمكِ عادلاً كقوامكِ ال

مزري بكثرة عدلهِ الاملودا

Would that your judgment be as fair as your stance -

Not hurting me frequently despite its kindness.

ما صار حبي فاتراً لا والذي

جعل الفتور بناظرَيكِ مُبيدا

My love has not grown indifferent, no, by Him

Who made indifference itself vanish from your eyes.

بل زادني فَرط التهالكِ لوعةً

ستقضُّني حتى اموت شهيدا

But the intensity of my dissolution has increased my pain

Until it kills me and makes me a martyr.

قربتِ لي أَجَلِي ببدعكِ في الهوى

فاتاح لي خوف الممات جمودا

You hastened my death with your innovation in love

Allowing the fear of death to freeze me.

ذكر التفرُّق في الحيوة يروعني

ما الحال أن فارقتني ملحودا

The thought of parting in life terrifies me

Let alone when you actually leave me.

إن شئتِ عَوداً للبشاشة والهنا

أحيي الفؤآد أمانياً ووعودا

If you wish to return joy and happiness to me

Revive my heart with hopes and promises.

لا تسعفي الدهر الخؤُونَ عليهِ أع

راضاً ولوماً جارحاً وصدودا

Do not let time treat it with hostility, blame

Or hurtful estrangement and coldness.

اعطي السماحةَ حقها برًّا بهِ

واكسيهِ من حلل الهناءِ برودا

Give generosity its right with kindness

And clothe it with garments of bliss and calm.

وتجنَّبي تكدير اوقات الصفا

مَن ذا يشوب بعلقمٍ قنديدا

And avoid disturbing the moments of intimacy,

Who would taint pure wine with aloe?

ودعي الترفُّعَ والدلالَ تكلُّفاً

حتى يعود بنا الغرام سعيدا

Leave aside haughtiness and coquetry

So that love returns to us happy.

ألمثل قلبيَ تتهمينَ بسلوةٍ

يا مَن لها عنت الرؤُوس سجودا

Do you accuse my heart that vies for leadership of indifference?

O you before whom heads bow down in prostration!

وانا الذي لم يتخذكِ حبيبةً

لفؤادهِ الملتاح بل معبودا

And I who never took you as a beloved

To my heart that is entirely devoted to you as a goddess.

وانا الذي مذ صحَّ عقد ودادنا

اضحت لديهِ مهى زرود قرودا

And I who, since our love pact was made

You have become the sole object of my passion and desire.

وأنا الذي يجد السعادةَ والمُنى

أن توطئي قدميكِ منهُ خدودا

And I who find happiness and purpose

That your feet tread upon me as carpets.

وانا الذي باع الحية وصفوها

في سوق حبكِ عامداً معمودا

And I who sold my soul extolling you

In the market of your love consciously and willfully.

ان غبتِ ظنَّ الشمس قرصاً من دمٍ

والارض سجناً والسما اخدودا

If you are absent, the sun seems to my eye a bowl of blood

And the earth a prison, and the sky caving walls.

واذا وجدتِ وجدتِ منك بعطفةٍ

حسب المنيّةَ جنَّةً وخلودا

And when you are found, you are to me a bliss

That suffices instead of Heaven and eternity.

العيدُ أن لم يبدُ وجهكِ مأتمٌ

واذا بدا حسب المآتم عيدا

A feast, if not lit by the light of your face, is but mourning;

And if lit by it, however gloomy, becomes celebration.

كوني على ثقةٍ بأَني ثابتٌ

في دين حبّكِ لا اطيق جحودا

Have confidence that I stand steadfast

In the religion of your love, refusing to betray or abandon it.

وتيقني ان الذى الف الوفا

منذ الحداثة لا يكون كنودا

And be certain that he who has shown loyalty for so long

Can never be indifferent or uncaring.

جودي ابخلي صدّي اقبلي جوري اعدلي

تجدي سليمكِ صادقاً وودودا

Favor me or deprive me, accept me or spurn me, be equitable or unfair,

And you will still find your faithful loving friend.

كَلِفاً مشوقاً هائماً متولّهاً

لم يبغِ عن سنن الوفاء محيدا

Passionately yearning, utterly enraptured,

Never deviating from loyalty’s ways.

بكِ منكِ عنكِ اليكِ كل حياتهِ

وكذاك يلبث في الخلود مُريدا

For you, from you, by you, to you is his whole existence,

And so shall he remain for eternity aspiring.