يا قاضيَ العشاقِ اشكو إلى

عدلك ما لاقيتهُ في هواه

O judge of lovers, I complain to

your justice of what I suffered from his love.

حرم اجفاني طيب الكرى

وهو خليٌّ غارقٌ في كراه

He deprived my eyelids of the delight of sleep

While he is immersed in detestation.

ومن بلائي انني كلما

ايقظته تجرحُني مقلتاه

And of my afflictions is that whenever

I awaken him, his glances wound me.

ألا تراني مثلَ طيرٍ رماه

قناصُهُ الباغي فاجرى دماه

Do you not see me like a bird shot down

by a treacherous hunter, its blood flowing?

وأن تسلني اين ضاعَ دمي

فاطلبه وانظر ما حوت وجنتاه

And were you to ask me where my blood went

Seek it, and see what his cheeks absorbed.

رثى لي القاضي وافتى باح

ضارِ غريمي كي يلاقي جزاه

The judge eulogized me and decreed the

harm of my oppressor so he may receive his punishment.

اتى ولما لاحَ في بابه

بنظرةٍ من لاحظيه رشاه

He came, and when he appeared at his door

with a glance from his eyes he bribed him.

فاصبحَ القاضي رقيقاً له

وأصدرَ الحكمَ بموتي فداه

So the judge became sympathetic to him

and issued a decree that I die for him.

متنا كلانا في هواه ولم

نحصل على سانحة من رضاه

We both died of love for him, and did not

obtain any happy moment of his consent.