أَلَم تَرَ أَنَّني حَيٌّ كَمَيتٍ

أُداري الوَقتَ أَو مَيتٌ كَحَيِّ

Do you not see that I am alive like a dead man

I pass the time or dead like a living one

أُحاذِرُ عالَمي وَأَخافُ مِنّي

وَأَلحى الناسَ بَلَهَ بَني لُحَيِّ

I am wary of my world and fear myself

And people find me confused like the son of Luhey

وَهُم لي مِثلُ ما كانَت قَديماً

لِقَيسِ بنِ الخَطيمِ بَنو دُحَيِّ

And they are to me as they were long ago

To Qais Bin Al Khatim, the clan of Duhey