أَرمدتَ أَمْ بِنَجومك الرمدُ

فَقَد عادَ ضدّا كُلُّ ما تَعِدُ

Have you gone blind or has blindness struck your stars?

For everything you promise has turned contrary.

هَل في حسابك ما تُؤَمِّلُهُ

أَم قَد تَصَرَّمَ عِندَك الأمدُ

Does your reckoning include what you wish for?

Or has your appointed time run out on you?

قَد كُنتَ تَهمِسُ إِذ تُخاطبني

وَتخطّ كُرهاً إِن عصَتكَ يَدُ

You used to whisper when you spoke to me

And frown if my hand disobeyed you.

فَالآن لا عَينٌ وَلا أَثَرٌ

أَتَراكَ غيَّبَ شخصكَ البَلَدُ

Now there is no sign or trace of you -

Did the country hide your person from me?

وتُراكَ بِالعَذراءِ في عُرسٍ

أَم إِذ كذبتَ سَطا بكَ الأَسَدُ

Or are you celebrating with the Virgin a wedding

Or when you lied did the lion make a meal of you?

المُلكُ لا يُبقي عَلى أَحَدٍ

وَالمَوتُ لا يَبقى لَهُ أَحَدُ

Kingship spares no one

And death spares no one for death.