أَغَزالُ قولي لِلغَزالِ الأَحوَرِ

أَضمَرتَ غَدراً لَيسَ عَنكَ بِمُضمَرِ

My gazelle words to the graceful gazelle

You harbored betrayal though you feigned otherwise

إِذهَب فَلَم أَجزَع عَلَيكَ وَرُبَّما

صَبَّرتُ عَنكَ حَشاشَةً لَم تَصبِرِ

Go away, I won't grieve for you, perhaps

I endured your fickleness with patience you could not endure

يا وارِداً لَجَّت بِهِ هَفَواتُهُ

ما كُنتَ أَوَّلَ وارِدٍ لَم يَصدُرِ

Oh frequent visitor led astray by his passions

You weren't the first to come who didn't stay

ظَفِرَت بِكَ الأَيّامُ بَعدَ تَمَنُّعٍ

ظَفَرَ الهُمومِ بِعاشِقٍ لَم يَظفَرِ

The days had their way with you after aloofness

As worries had their way with a lover who didn't succeed

يا لَيتَ شِعري ضَلَّ عَقلُكَ كُلُّهُ

أَم هَذِهِ أَيّامُ ثَقبِ الجَوهَرِ

Oh would that I knew, did you lose all reason

Or are these the days of piercing jewels?