تعزّى قلبُنا عن ذكرِ راح

فكيف عزاءُ قلبٍ مُستباح

Our hearts find solace in the memory of departed friends

Our heart sought solace from the memory of wine,

How can a heart find solace when it is violated?

But how can a plundered heart find any peace?

يظلّ الليلَ يرقبُ كلَّ نجمٍ

يواليه يغورُ إلى الصياحِ

The night lingers as each star keeps watch

It spends the night observing every star,

Only to disappear into the darkness

Watching them sink until the break of dawn.

أراد محمّدُ بنُ رياح شتمي

فعادَ وبالُ ذاك على رياح

Muhammad ibn Riyah intended to insult me

Muhammad ibn Riyah sought to slander me,

But that insult rebounded upon Riyah

But the shame of that rebounded on Riyah.

أتنسى صَدعَ أمّكَ فوق أيري

تدورُ كما يدورُ أبو رياحِ

Have you forgotten your mother’s death atop Al-Ayri?

Do you forget your mother’s cleft upon my cock,

She spins around like the spinning of Abu Riyah

Whirling around just as a wind-vane spins?

تغنّت لي وقد ركبت عليه

وصارت فوق مندمج وقاح

She sang to me as I rode atop her

She sang to me while she was straddling it,

Becoming an inseparable, attached friend

Settled upon a pillar hard and stout:

ألسنا خير مَن ركبَ المطايا

وأندى العالمين بطونَ راح

Are we not better than those who rode mares

"Are we not the finest riders of the beasts,"

And called humanity to rest at meadows?

"And the most generous of all the world in gifts?"

فقلتُ دعي التمثّل ليس هذا

وعيشكِ وقتَ هجوٍ وامتداحِ

So I said “Enough with the pretenses, this is not

I said, "Leave off the quoting, for this is not,"

A time of satire or flattering odes.”

"Upon your life, the time for praise or scorn;"

ولكنّ الأوانَ أوانُ نيكٍ

وإدخال الفياشي في الفقاح

But now is a good time

"Rather, this moment is the time to fuck,"

To turn the nobles into commoners

"And thrust the heavy head into the rear."

فقالت هاكَ رجلي فارفعنها

وغرّق رمحَ بطنكَ جوف راحي

She said “Here are my legs, raise them

She said, "Then take my leg and raise it up,"

And drive your spear into the belly of Raha.”

"And drown your belly’s spear within my grasp."

فلمّا أن مضى فيها تغنّت

تنادى آل ليلى بالرواحِ

After he had his way, she sang

And when it plunged into her deep, she sang:

Calling the family of Layla to comfort her spirit.

"The folk of Layla call out to depart!"