ألم تَرَني في كلِّ يومٍ وليلةِ

أحنُّ إلى من لا يحنُّ حنيني

Don't you see me every day and night

Yearning for one who longs not for my longing

وأندُبُ مرموساً بملساءَ قَفرةٍ

فيا ليتني ناديتُ غيرَ دفينِ

And lamenting one buried in the smooth sands of a barren wasteland

Oh, would that I had called on other than the buried one

كأنّي وقد قُطِّعتَ عنّيَ هالكاً

تقطّع منّي أكْحَلى ووَتِيني

As though when you were cut off from me, destroyed

You were cut off from me, the most beautiful and fresh

فَرَتْ نائباتُ الدّهرِ أغصانَ دَوْحَتِي

ولاقَ أُصولي ما أصاب غُصوني

The calamities of fate have broken the branches of my palm tree

And what befell the roots befell the branches

فإنْ بقيتْ بعد القرينِ حُشاشتي

قليلاً فإنِّي لاحقٌ بقريني

If, after my companion, some life remains in me

It will be but little before I follow my companion