سُمتَني خُطةً من الكُره نقداً

بجزاءٍ يكونُ أو لا يكونُ

You drew me a plan of hatred spontaneously

With a reward that may or may not come to be

سمتني أن أغيبَ عن كل شيء

أنا صبٌّ بقربه مفتون

You destined me to disappear from everything

While I, enthralled, flow near it

ووعدتَ التي وعدت من البرْ

ر وعندي بالخلف منك رُهون

And you promised the one you had promised goodness

While with me you had pledges to violate

فأتيتَ التي يُرى الشرُّ فيها

رأي عينٍ وخيرُها مظنونُ

So you came to her in whom evil is seen

An opinion of the eye, though its good is assumed

وتوقَّيتُ أن يقال غبينٌ

ومن النكر حازمٌ مغبون

And I expected it would be said: absent!

And from denial: a resolute one, duped

لا أحب التي لذيذُ جَناها

مُتمنَّىً وشوكُها مضمون

I do not love she whose fruit is sweet

Hoped for, yet whose thorns are guaranteed