سَكَنتُ إِلى الدُنيا فَلَمّا عَرَفتُها

تَمَنَّيتُ أَنّي لَستُ فيها بِساكِنِ

I settled into this world, but when I understood it

I wished I did not reside in it

وَما فَتِئَت تَرمي الفَتى عَن قُسِيَّها

بِكُلِّ الرَزايا مِن جَميعِ الأَماكِنِ

It does not cease casting the young man from his firmness

With all kinds of calamities from every place

وَما سَمَحَت لّزائِراتِ بِأَمنِها

وَلا لِلمَواكي في أَقاصي المَواكِنِ

It did not allow safety for its visitors

Nor for those lamenting in its farthest places

رَكَنّا إِلَيها إِذ رَكَونا أُمورَها

فَقُل في سَفاهٍ لِلرَواكي الرَواكِنِ

We sought refuge in it when we tended to its affairs

So say to the shelterers in the shelters, in folly

فَأَينَ الشُموسُ اليَعرُبِيّاتُ قَبلَنا

بِها كُنَّ فَاِسأَل عَن مَآلِ البَهاكِنِ

Where are the brilliant suns that were before us?

With them, be, so ask about the outcome of the ruined

زَكَنَّ المَنايا أَن زَكَونَ فَنِعمَةٌ

مِنَ اللَهِ دامَت لِلزَواكي الزَواكِنِ

The fates smiled that we were smiling, so it is a blessing

From God that lasted for the smilers in the shelters

جُمِعنا بِقُدرٍ وَاِفتَرَقنا بِمِثلِهِ

وَتِلكَ قُبورٌ بُدِّلَت مِن مَساكِنِ

We were brought together by fate and separated just the same

And those are graves substituted from dwellings

نَفَتنا قُوىً لا مُضرَباتٌ لِسالِمٍ

بَلابِلَ وَلا مُستَدرَكاتٌ بِلَكِنِ

We dismissed forces, no strikes for a greeter

Confusions and no inferences with softness