وراءكِ أقوالَ الوشاة الفواجر

ودونك أحوال الغرام المخامرِ

Behind you are the words of scandalous slanderers,

And beneath you are states of intoxicating passion.

فلولا ولوعٌ منك بالصَّدِّ ما سعوا

ولولا الهوى لم انْتدبْ للمعاذرِ

If not for your inclination towards rejection, they would not have sought,

And if not for love, excuses would not have been appointed.

تَزاورَ نَومي أن هَجرتِ وطالما

صفا صفوَ جفنٍ إذ وصلت وناظر

My sleep was visited when you were estranged, and oft

The eyelid was purified when you were united and watched.

لقد أنجمتْ تلك العهودُ كأَنَّها

جوافلُ طيرٍ نُفِّرتْ بالخوادرِ

Those times were starred as if they were

Flocks of birds startled by dangers.

فلا الطيفُ للطرفِ القريح بسانحٍ

ولا الحِبُّ للقلب المعنَّى بزائرِ

So neither the specter pleased the desirous eyelid,

Nor did love please the pained heart with a visitor.

سليمٌ من الأشواق شِيبْ بكاذبِ

وأمْنٌ من الإِلمام ريْعَ بهاجرِ

One whose old age lies about longing is secure,

And one whose union is safe from pain is a maiden Haajar.

وباكٍ إذا ما أجْدبَ العامُ عنده

سقى التُرابَ من أجفانه بالمواطرِ

And one who weeps when the year is barren,

Watered the soil from his eyelids with showers.

أصختِ ولو أرعيت وجدي مسْمعاً

لَرُدَّ على أعقابه كلُّ فاجرِ

If you had heeded my passion with listening ears,

Every wicked one would return on his heels.

وحمَّلتني ذنب الكذوب ولم تزلْ

يدُ الخطب تُدمي ناقلاً غير عاثرِ

And you blamed me for the sin of lying, though still

The hand of calamities continues to transport me without stumbling.

عصيتُ أمير العذلِ فيكِ وطالما

تداول سمعي مجلباً بالزَّواجرِ

I disobeyed the prince of love for you, and long

My ears received warnings with reprimands.

إذا عددت أنواع صدك واغتدت

أوائلها مشفوعة بالأواخر

If I enumerated the types of your rejection and transgressed,

Their beginnings accompanied by their ends.

محاها هوىً ما يستفيق كما انمحى

بحلم جَلا الدين عُظْمُ الجرائر

A passion that does not awaken erased them, as erased was

The enormity of crimes with Jalal al-Din’s dream.

إذا ما أتاه مُجرمٌ وهو قادرٌ

توهَّمتهُ من عفوه غيرَ قادرِ

Whenever a criminal came to him while able,

He imagined him, due to his pardon, unable.