عَمى العَينِ يَتلوهُ عَمى الدينِ وَالهُدى

فَلَيلَتِيَ القُصوى ثَلاثُ لَيالي

Blindness of the eye is followed by blindness of religion and guidance

So my nights will reach the end, three nights

وَما أَزَمَت نَفسي البَنانَ عَلى الَّتي

إِذا أَزَمَت عَضَّت بِشَوكِ سَيالِ

And my soul did not force the separation upon the one

Who when forced, bites with the thorns of outpouring

وَلا قَصَّرَت لي أُمُّ لَيلى بِشُربِها

حَنادِسَ أَوقاتٍ عَلَيَّ طِيالِ

Nor did the mother of Layla shorten for me

The cups of time upon me prolonged

إِذا ما اِجتَمَعنا هاجَتِ الحُزنَ أُلفَةٌ

مُحَدِّثَةٌ عَن جَمعِنا بِزِيالِ

When we gather, sorrow is aroused by the companionship

Reminiscing about our gathering with loss

لَحا اللَهُ غاراتِ السِنينَ فَإِنَّها

مُبَدِّلَةٌ ظِلمانَها بِرِيالِ

May Allah destroy the nights of years, for they

Are changing their darkness with misery

وَما سَرَّني رَبُّ الخَيالِ بِشَخصِهِ

فَيَطلُبُ مِنّي النَومُ طَيفَ خَيالِ

And the Lord of imagination did not please me with his image

So sleep asks me for the ghost of imagination

وَهَوَّنَ أَرزاءَ الحَوادِثِ أَنَّني

وَحيدٌ أُعانيها بِغَيرِ عِيالِ

And it eased the sorrows of events that I

Am lonely, suffering them without family

فَدَعني وَأَهوالاً أُمارِسُ ضَنكَها

وَإِيّاكَ عَنّي لا تَقِف بِحِيالي

So leave me and horrors I will endure their anguish

And you, do not stand in my way