يا مُظلم الروح كَم تَشقى عَلى حَرق

مِما يُكابد مِنكَ القَلب وَالرُوح

O soul in darkness, how much agony you suffer from burning,

Which the heart and spirit endure from you,

هَدى بِجَنبيكَ مَذبوح يَحف بِهِ

في عالم الصَدر قَلب مِنكَ مَذبوح

Slaughtered next to you, embraced by

A slaughtered heart from you in the world of the chest.

مَضى بِكَ العَقل لَم تَسعَد بِهِ أَثَراً

وَاِعتادَكَ الشَك إِذ ضاقَت بِكَ السوح

Reason has gone with you, not prospering from it at all,

And doubt has become accustomed to you when hopes were frustrated.

وَظَللت في الأَرض مَأخوذ فَلا ظَفرت

بِكَ الدِيار وَلا اِستَولى بِكَ اللوح

And you remained on earth taken, so you did not triumph,

The homelands did not master you, nor the tablet.

معلقاً في يَد الأَيام مطرحاً

في هامش الغَيب لا عِيسى وَلا نوح

Suspended by the hands of days, discarded

On the margin of the unknown, neither Jesus nor Noah.

وَدَعت أَمس يَقيني في مودأة

غَبراء تَعصف في أَعماقِها الريح

And yesterday my faith left me in a

Dusty affection, in whose depths the winds roar.

تَكَسَرَت شَمس دُنيا القَلب وَاِنطَفَأَت

في عالم الروح نَفسي المَصابيح

The sun of the heart's world was shattered and extinguished

In the world of the soul, my lamps.

وَيَحي وَوَيح الهُدى المَقبور لَيسَ لَهُ

رَجعي وَقَد أَوغَلت في التَباريح

And the buried guiding light still lives and laments, it has

No return, for it went too deep in the darkness.

لا أَعرف اليَوم إِلّا أَنَّه لِغَد

باب تَمر عَلى مغلاقه يوح

Today I know nothing but that tomorrow

Is a gate that sealed shutters pass through.