أَلا مُخبِرٌ فيما يَقولُ جَلِيَّةً
يُزيلُ بِها الشَكَّ المُريبَ يَقينُ
Informer, speak clearly, dispel my doubts
With certainty, replace uncertainty
أُسائِلُهُ عَن غائِبٍ كَيفَ حالُهُ
وَمَن نَزَلَ الغَبراءَ كَيفَ يَكونُ
Of the absent one, tell me how is he
He who went to the sands, what is his fate?
وَما كُنتُ أَخشى مِن زَمانِيَ أَنَّني
أَرِقُّ عَلى ضَرّائِهِ وَأَلينُ
I never feared my own hard times would make
Me soft and weak, till she whose love would take
إِلى أَن رَماني بِالَّتي لا شَوى لَها
فَأَعقَبَ مِن بَعدِ الرَنينِ أَنينُ
No other shot me, and after the blow
Came but doubled woe and crying in tow
مُعيني عَلى الأَيّامِ فَجَّعنَني بِهِ
فَما لي عَلى أَحداثِهِنَّ مُعينُ
My support against the days, she made me rue
Against their events I've no recourse, no clue
غَلَبنَ عَلى عِلقي النَفيسِ فَحُزنَه
وَفارَقَني عِلقٌ عَلَيَّ ثَمينُ
She conquered my precious sanity, and sorrow
Parted us, though to me she was dear morrow
سَمَحتُ بِهِ إِذ لَم أَجِد عَنهُ مَدفَعاً
وَإِنّي عَلى عُذري بِهِ لَضَنينُ
I let her go, could stop her not at all
Yet for my weakness here, blame myself I shall
وَإِنَّ أَحَقَّ المُجهِشينَ لِعَبرَةٍ
وَوَجدٍ قَرينٌ بانَ عَنهُ قَرينُ
Most deserving of sadness and the weeping eye
Are those whose dear one said goodbye, goodbye
وَما تَنفَعُ المَرءَ الشِمالُ وَحيدَةً
إِذا فارَقَتها بِالمَنونِ يَمينُ
One hand won't avail when the other took death
And went to what's beyond this mortal breath
تَجَرَّمَ عامٌ لَم أَنَل مِنكَ نَظرَةً
وَحانَ وَلَم يُقدَر لِقاؤُكَ حينُ
Year passed with no sight of you, now time's run out
We couldn't meet, though the chance was about
وَكَيفَ وَقَد قَطَّعنَ مِنكَ عَلائِقي
وَسَدَّت شَعوبٌ بَينَنا وَمَنونُ
For you cut bonds, people came between us riven
Blocking with death what once was so tight-knit
أَضَبَّ جَديدُ الأَرضِ دونَكَ وَاِلتَقَت
عَليكَ رِجامٌ كَالغَياطِلِ جونُ
The new days heaped dirt on you, arrows like rain
Poured down till all around you was but bane
تُجاوِرُ فيها هامِدينَ تَعَطَّلوا
وَمِن قَبلُ دانوا في الزَمانِ وَدينوا
Among those who perished and moved no more
They lived before, thrived in days of yore
مُقيمينَ مِنها في بُطونِ ضَرائِحٍ
حَوامِلُ لا يَبدو لَهُنَّ جَنينُ
In graves they dwell, wombs that bear no child
By sorrow for your tomb I'm stripped, running wild
أَمرٌ بِقَبرٍ قَد طَواكَ صَعيدُهُ
فَأَبلَسُ حَتّى ما أَكادُ أُبينُ
Ribs shudder with painful longing, affairs shaken
Eyes rain tears in torrents, all bonds taken
وَتَنفَضُّ بِالوَجدِ الأَليمِ أَضالِعٌ
وَتَرفَضَّ بِالدَمعِ الغَزيرِ شُؤونُ
These cheeks not marred, yet marred they are in stages
By teardrop hordes storming tender visages
فَإِلّا يَكُن عَقرٌ فَقَد عُقِرَت لَهُ
خُدودٌ بِأَسرابِ الدُموعِ عُيونُ
No wonder rains fall on your plot, the eye weeps
For there lies the black of eyes in earthen deeps
وَلا عَجَبٌ أَن تُمطِرَ العَينُ فَوقَهُ
فَإِنَّ سَوادَ العَينِ فيهِ دَفينُ
