نسائلها هَلا كَفاكِ نحولُهُ

وَنَصبَتُهُ أَو دَمعُهُ وَهمولُه

I ask her, isn't your anguish for him enough?

His weakness, his tears and his worries for him

تكنَّفه هَمَّانِ شَجوٌ وَصَبوَةٌ

فَبُلِّغَ واشيهِ المُنى وَعذولُه

Surround him with the suffering of yearning and patience

So tell the well-wisher of his wishes and his only refuge

فَإِن يَستَبِن في وَجهِهِ همُّ سجنِهِ

فَقَد غابَ في الأَحشاءِ عَنكِ دَخيلُه

If the worry of his imprisonment shows on his face

Then his friend has been hidden from you in the depths

معنَّىً بِكتمانِ الحَبيبِ وَحبّه

فَإِن يقتلِ الكتمانُ فَهوَ قَتيلُه

Meaning to conceal the beloved and his love

If concealment kills, then it is his killer

وَأَقبَلنَ مِن نَحوِ الحَبيبِ كَأَنَّما

تحاشَدَ نَحوي جفنُهُ وَنصولُه

And they came from the direction of the beloved as if

His eyelids and his determination converged towards me

دَعوني أشِم بِالبابِ برقَ أَحبَتي

قواماً فَلم يسمَح بِذاك وَكيلُه

Let me smell the lightning of my loved one at the door

Standing, but his representative did not allow that

يعم فَلا يَألو حصاراً لعلَّه

سَيُودي فيودي بَثُّهُ وَأليلُه

It spreads so it does not stop the siege, hoping

That its sending and its intimates will surrender

فَلو كانَ في هذا الحصار سميه

لأَنساهُ طُولَ السّبع في اليَوم طولُه

If there was poison in this siege

I would make him forget the length of seven days in one day

لَقَد راعَني سجنٌ فَشطَّ وَلَو دَنا

مِن السّجن لَم يسهل عليَّ دخولُه

Indeed, an expansive prison startled me, and if

The prison came close, entering it would not be easy for me

يَعزُّ عَلى الوَردِ النَّضير حلولُهُ

وَلَم يَكُ عِندَ المُستهام نُزولُه

It is difficult for the blossoming flowers to arrive

And its descent was not with the desperate one