أرى البُعْدَ لم يُخْطِرْ سواكم على بالي

وإن قَرّبَ الأخطارَ من جسدي البالي

I see distance has not occurred to anyone but you in my mind

And if dangers draw near my frail body

فيا حبّذا الأسقامُ في جَنبِ طاعتي

أوامِرَ أشواقي وعصيانِ عُذّالي

So good for ailments by my obedience

Orders of my passions and disobedience of my punisher

ويا ما ألذّ الذلّ في عِزّ وَصْلِكُمْ

وإن عَزّ ما أحلى تقَطُّعَ أوصالي

And oh how sweet is humiliation in your companionship

And if it prides what sweeter splitting of my joints

نأيْتُمْ فحالي بَعدكُمْ ظَلّ عاطِلاً

وما هوَ مِمّا ساء بل سَرّكُمْ حالي

You went away so my state without you is an idle shadow

And it's not of what was ugly but delighted you my state

بَلَيْتُ بِهِ لمّا بُليتُ صَبابةً

أبَلّتْ فلي منها صُبَابَةُ إبلال

Yes, with it when I was tested young

That tested me so I have from it the submissiveness of deference

نَصَبْتُ على عيني بتَغْميضِ جَفْنِها

لِزَورَةِ زُورِ الطّيف حيلةَ مُحتال

I set on my eyes by blinking their lids

The wiles of the phantom's false visions a trickster's ruse

فما أسعَفَتْ بالغُمضِ لكِن تعَسّفت

عليّ بدَمْعٍ دائمِ الصّوبِ هَطّال

So blinking did not help me but it imposed

On me a lasting tear shedding plentifully

فيا مُهْجَتي ذوبي على فَقْدِ بَهْجَتي

لِتَرْحَالِ آمالي ومَقْدَمِ أوجالي

Oh my elation melt for the loss of my delight

To the travel of my hopes and arrival of my matter

وضِنّي بدَمْعٍ قد غَنَيْتُ بفَيْضِ ما

جرَى من دمي إذ طُلّ ما بينَ أطلال

And console me with a tear for I sufficed by the abundance

Of what flowed from my blood when increased what was between ruins

ومَنْ لي بأن يرضى الحبيبُ وإن علا النْ

نَحِيبُ فإبْلالي بَلائي وبَلْبَالي

And who can please the beloved even if the cooing arises

For my deference is my affliction and confusion

فما كَلَفِي في حُبّهِ كُلْفَةً لهُ

وإن جَلّ ما ألْقَى من القيل والقال

So there was no burden on me in his love ever

Even if plentiful what I endured of saying and talking

بقيتُ بهِ لمّا فَنيتُ بحُبّه

بِثَرْوَةِ إيثاري وكَثْرَةِ إقلالي

I remained through him when I perished by his love

By wealth of my preference and abundance of my paucity

رعَى اللهُ مَغنىً لم أَزَلْ في ربوعِهِ

معنّىً وقُلْ إن شئتَ يا ناعِم البال

God shepherd a praiser who I never ceased in his meadows

Meaningful and say if you wish oh one self-pleased

وحَيّا مُحَيّا عاذلٍ ليَ لم يزَلْ

يكرِّرُ من ذِكْرَى أحاديث ذي الخال

And greet greeting one who reproached me and did not stop

Repeating from the tale of the one with the mole

رَوَى سُنّة عندي فأرْوى من الصّدى

وأهدى الهُدى فاعجبْ وقد رام إضلالي

He related a tradition with me so I quench from the echo

And guide to guidance so wonder and he wanted my straying

فأحببتُ لَوْمَ اللّؤمِ فيه لو انّني

مُنِحْتُ المُنى كانت علامةَ عُذّالي

So I loved the blame of misguidance in him if I

Was given what I wish it would be the signet of my punisher

جَهِلَتُ بأن قُلْتُ اقترحْ يا معذّبي عليّ

فأجْلى لي وقال اسْلُ سلسالي

I was ignorant that I said propose oh my torturer upon me

So he uncovered for me and said ask my chains

وهيهاتِ أن أسلو وفي كلّ شعرةٍ

لِحَتْفِي غرامٌ مُقْبِلٌ ايّ إقبال

Alas to ask and in every hair for my doom

Enamored forthcoming oh what forthcoming

وقَالَ ليَ الاَحي مَرارةُ قصْدِهِ

تَحَلّى بِها دَعْ حُبّهُ قلتُ أحلى لي

And he said to me the pain of his aim

Adorned with it leave his love I said sweeter for me

بذَلْتُ له روحي لراحَةِ قُرْبِهِ

وغيرُ عجيبٍ بذْليَ الغالِ في الغالي

I sacrificed my soul for the comfort of his nearness

And it's not weird my sacrificing the expensive for the precious

فجادَ ولكن بالبُعادِ لِشِقْوَتي

فيا خَيبَةَ المَسعى وضَيعَةَ آمالي

So he was generous but with distance for my misery

Oh disappointment of effort and loss of my hopes

وحانَ لهُ حَيني على حِينِ غِرّةٍ

ولم أدرِ أنّ الآلَ يَذْهَبُ بالآل

And his time came to me suddenly in an instant

And I did not know that fate takes away fate

تحكّمَ في جسمي النُّحولُ فلو أتَى

لِقَبْضِي رسولٌ ضَلَّ في موضع خال

Emaciation took control of my body so if

A messenger came to take me he would get lost in a place

فلو هَمّ باقي السقمِ بي لاستعانَ في

تَلافي بما حالَتْ له من ضنىً حالي

So if the rest of the illness intended me he would seek help in

Avoiding with what my condition presented him of intimacy

ولم يبقَ منّي ما يُناجي تَوَهُّمِي

سِوى عزِّ ذُلٍّ في مهانَةِ إجْلالِ

And none remains of me that speaks to my imagination

Except the honor of humiliation in the humiliation of veneration