الْحُسْنُ فِيكَ قَدِ اكْتَمَلْ

لَوْ كُنْتَ تُوصَفُ بِالْخَجَلْ

Beauty in you has been perfected

Beauty within you has reached perfection,

If only you were described as shy

If only you were known for modesty.

لَكِنْ سَلَكْتَ سَبِيلَ مَنْ

نَبَذَ الْوَفَاءَ وَمَا احْتَفَلْ

But you followed the path of those

But you have taken the path of one who

Who discarded loyalty and did not care

Discards loyalty and shows no concern.

غَرَّرْتَنِي إِذْ زُرْتَنِي

مِنْ غَيْرِ وَعْدٍ أَوْ أَمَلْ

You tricked me when you visited me

You beguiled me when you visited me

Without promise or hope

Without a promise or any hope.

فَطَنَنْتُ أَنَّكَ صَادِقٌ

وَالصِّدْقُ عَنْكَ قَدِ ارْتَحَلْ

I realized you were honest

So I believed that you were true,

And honesty from you has departed

While truthfulness had departed from you.

لَمْ يَبْدُ بَدْرُ وِصَالِكُمْ

لِمُحِبِّكُمْ حَتَّى أَفَلْ

The full moon of your union did not appear

The full moon of your union did not appear

To your lover until it set

To your lover, save to immediately set,

وَجَفَوْتَهُ مِنْ غَيْرِ مَا

جُرْمٍ بِجَانِبِكُمْ أَخَلْ

You abandoned him without any

And you shunned him without any

Wrongdoing on his side

Offense committed to slight your side.

كَمْ حِيلَةٍ أَبْدَيْتُهَا

لِرَضَاكَ مَا نَفَعَتْ حِيَلْ

How many tricks did I use

How many schemes I have devised

To please you, but tricks did not help

To please you, yet schemes were of no avail.

وَقَنَعْتُ مِنْكُمْ فِي الصَّبَا

بَةِ بِالتَّطَارُحِ وَالْغَزَلْ

And in my youth I was content with you

I was content to receive from you in my passionate

With flirtation and amorous verse

Yearning, mere flirtation and amorous exchange.

فَصَرَمْتَ حَبْلَ مَوَدَّتِي

بِمُدَى الْقَطِيعَةِ وَالْمَلَلْ

But you cut the rope of my affection

Yet you severed the cord of my affection

With complete separation and boredom

With the blades of estrangement and weariness.

فَالْآنَ إِذْ حَمَّلْتَنِي

فِي الْحُبِّ مَا لاَ يُحْتَمَلْ

Now when you have burdened me

So now, since you have burdened me

With love that cannot be endured

In love with what cannot be endured,

وَأَبَيْتَ إِلاَّ أَنْ تَرَى

جِسْمِي تُسَاوِرُهُ الْعِلَلْ

And insisted on seeing

And you refused anything but to see

My body ravaged by illnesses

My body assailed by maladies,

عَزَّيْتُ فِيكَ تَوَلُّهِي

وَأَصَخْتُ فِيكَ لِمَنْ عَذَلْ

I gave you up though it pained me

I have mourned my infatuation with you,

And complained of those who were harsh

And listened to those who reproached me for you.

وَدَرَسْتُ حُبَّكَ مِنْ فُؤَا

دِي مِثْلَمَا دَرَسَ الطَّلَلْ

And I erased your love from my heart

And I have erased your love from my

As ruins are erased by floods

Heart, just as the ruined encampment is erased.