Sol 5.6

  1. The ṣād of my kiss embraced the lām of her temple-lock.

    And the mirror showed it to her, clinging to her cheek.

  2. She grew suspicious of what she saw, then said:

    “Is it writing I see, though I see no one?”

  3. She called me to wipe it away, and thus I gained full access—

    —to both cheeks, touching and pinching.

  4. Then she said, “Come, erase it as one who strives—

    —hard at erasing it, one who is painstakingly thorough.”

  5. I said, “Scraping will rub it away.” She said, “Then scrape—

    —with your incisors, and follow the scraping with a suck.”

  6. I said, “Indeed, what you have ordered is an obligation—

    —upon us, confirmed and not to be disobeyed.”

  7. And when she saw the trace left by what I had erased, she said:

    “It was a thief (liṣṣ); by God, it has become a gem (faṣṣ).”

  8. I said, “Indeed, gems are stamped by kissing—

    —upon the cheek of every tender one.”

Sol 5.6