صدٌّ حَمى ظمئي لَمَاكَ لِماذا

وهَواكَ قلبي صارَ مِنْهُ جُذَاذا

My thirsty longing for you - why?

And your love has made my heart withered.

إن كان في تلَفي رِضاكَ صبابةً

ولكَ البقاء وجَدْتُ فيه لذاذا

If being wrapped up in your pleasure is youthfulness,

Then eternity is for you, and in it I found delight.

كبِدي سلَبتَ صحيحةً فامنُنْ على

رَمَقي بها مَمنونةً أفلاذا

You took away my healthy liver, so favor

My remains with it, preserved for my dear ones.

يا رامياً يَرْمي بسَهْمِ لِحاظِهِ

عن قَوس حاجِبِهِ الحشَا إنفاذا

O shooter! Shooting from the bow of his glances

Arrows from his frowning eyebrows forcefully.

أنّى هجَرتَ لِهجْرِ واشٍ بي كمَنْ

في لَوْمِهِ لُؤْمٌ حكَاهُ فهاذَا

Why did you abandon me for the separation of a slanderer

Whose blame is a blemish - so here is the separation.

وعليّ فيكَ مَنِ اعتدَى في حِجْره

فقَد اغتدى في حِجْرِهِ مَلّاذا

And whoever transgressed against me regarding you

Has indeed transgressed in his own sanctuary.

غَيرَ السّلُوِّ تجِدْهُ عندي لائِمي

عمّن حَوَى حُسْنَ الورى استحواذا

Other than complaining, he will not find me blaming

those who contained the beauty of the terrain completely.

يا ما أُمَيْلحَهُ رَشاً فيه حَلا

تبديلُهُ حالي الحَلِي بَذّاذا

O how much I wish it would be steady, wherein is sweetness,

Changing my state - the sweet one - to scattered about.

أضحى بإحسانٍ وحُسْنٍ مُعْطياً

لِنَفائسٍ ولَأنْفُسٍ أخّاذا

He has given generously and with beauty,

To the finest and the souls most penetrating.

سَيْفَاً تَسِلُّ على الفؤاد جُفُونُه

وأرى الفُتورَ لهُ بها شحّاذا

A sword that sheds tears on the heart - his eyelids -

And I see slackness for it through him, begging.

فتْكاً بنا يزْدادُ منهُ مُصَوراً

قَتْلي مُساوِرَ في بني يَزْداذا

Killing me - they increase depicting it -

My killing among the family of Yazdaj.

لا غَرْوَ أنْ تَخذَ العِذَارَ حمائلا

إذْ ظَلّ فتّاكاً به وقّاذا

No wonder he made separation his she-camels

When he remained a deadly and decisive separator.

وبِطَرْفِهِ سِحْرٌ لَوَ ابْصَرَ فِعْله

هاروتُ كان له به أستاذا

With his glance there is magic - if its deed appeared

To Harut he would have been for it a teacher.

تَهْذِي بهذا البَدرِ في جَوِّ السّما

خَلِّ افْتِراكَ فذاكَ خِلّي لاذا

Wander in this full moon in the atmosphere of the sky -

My isolation from you - so why this isolation?

عَنَتِ الغزالَةُ والغَزَالُ لِوَجْهِهِ

مُتَلفّتاً وبه عِياذاً لاذا

The doe-eyed one distracted, and the gazelle, for his face,

Glancing about, and in it seeking refuge - so why?

أرْبَت لَطافتُهُ على نَشْرِ الصَّبا

وأبَت تَرافَتُهُ التّقَمّصَ لاذا

His refinement prevailed over the blossoming of youth,

And his compassion refused assuming disguises - so why?

وشَكَتْ بَضاضةُ خدّهِ من وَرْدِهِ

وحَكَتْ فظاظةُ قلبِه الفولاذا

And the paleness of his cheek complained of his roses,

And the roughness of his heart told of steel.

عَمَّ اشْتِعالا خالُ وجْنَتِهِ أخا

شُغْل به وجْداً أبَى استنِقاذا

The burning of the moles of his cheek, my brother,

Has preoccupied me with anguish that refused rescue.

خَصِرُ اللّمى عذْبُ المُقَبَّلِ بُكْرةً

قبلَ السّواكِ المِسْكَ ساد وشاذى

The waist of the afflicted one, the fresh and sweet when kissed,

Aloes wood, it surpassed, pure and aromatic.

مِن فيِه والألحاظُ سُكْرِي بل أرى

في كلّ جارحَة به نَبّاذا

Intoxicated am I from his mouth, and his glances, rather I see,

In each of his limbs regarding him, bubbles.

نَطَقَتْ مَناطقُ خَصْرِهِ خَتْماً إذا

صَمْتُ الخواتِم للخناصِرِ آذى

His waist belts have spoken, a stamp, so

The seals of waists were silenced, an injury.

رقّتْ ودَقّ فناسبَتْ مِنّي النّسي

بَ وذاك معْناه استَجادَ فحاذى

They became gentle and akin to me, the forgetfulness,

Yes, and that means it brought ease, so it rhymed.

كالغُصْنِ قدّاً والصّباحِ صباحَة

واللّيْلِ فَرعاً منهُ حاذى الحاذا

Like a branch bending, and the dawn, dawning,

And the night, exuberant, from it, adjoining the adjoining.

حُبّيِه عَلّمنِي التّنَسُكَ إذ حكى

مُتَعَفّفاً فَرَقَ المَعادِ مُعاذا

His love taught me asceticism, when

He related, disciplined, the farewells of return an obstruction.

فَجَعَلْتُ خَلْعِي للْعِذَار لِثَامَه

إذ كان من لثْم العِذار مُعاذا

So I made taking off the adornments for him as his cloak

When the kissing of the adornment was an obstruction.

ولنا بخَيْفِ مِنىً عُرَيْبٌ دونَهُمْ

حَتْفُ المُنى عادي لِصَبّ عاذا

And for us in the fear of parting, a place of return less than them -

The fate of the parting, my enemy, appropriate for pouring harm.

وبجزع ذَياك الحِمي ظَبيُ حَمَي

بِظُبَي اللواحِظِ إذ أحاذ إخاذا

And with the agony of your loss, the gazelle of my love,

With the gazelle, when he shared in taking.

هيَ أدمُعُ العُشّاقِ جادَ ولِيُّها ال

وادي ووالى جُودُها الألْواذا

They are the tears of lovers flowing, and its intensity voluntary offered

Valleys and paid loyalty its floods.

كَمْ من فقيرٍ ثَمّ لا من جعفر

وافى الأجارعَ سائلاً شَحّاذا

How many destitutes, then no one like Ja'far

Came to the honorable ones asking, begging.

من قبلِ ما فَرَقَ الفريقُ عَمارةً

كُنّا فَفَرّقَنا النّوى أَفْخَاذا

Before the caravan dispersed from Amarah

We used to disperse wishes, thighs.

أُفْرِدْتُ عنهُمْ بالشّآمِ بُعَيْدَ ذا

كَ الإِلِتئَامِ وخَيّمُوا بغْداذا

I was isolated from them in Damascus, distant

Like reunification, and they pitched tents in Baghdad.

جمعَ الهُمومَ البُعدُ عِندي بعدَ أن

كانت بقُرْبي منهُمُ أفذاذا

Separation gathered worries upon me after

They were near me from them, harm.

كالعَهْد عندهُمُ العهودُ على الصّفا

أنّى ولَستُ لها صفاً نَبّاذا

Oaths like covenants are with them at peace -

How so when I do not have for it purity, scattered about?

والصّبرُ صَبْرٌ عنهُمُ وعَلَيْهِمُ

عِندي أراهُ إذنْ أذى أزّاذا

And patience is patience from them and upon them

I see it then as harm, burdensome.

عَزّ العَزاءُ وجَدّ وَجْدي بالأُلى

صرموا فكانوا بالصّريم ملاذا

Consolation became difficult, and my anguish with the family

They plotted, so they were with plotting, refuge.

رِئمَ الفَلا عنّي إليكَ فمُقْلَتي

كُحِلَتْ بهم لا تُغْضِهَا استِئْخَاذا

Diversion from me to you so my eyelid

Which was lined with them - do not make it collapse seeking more.

قَسَماً بمَنْ فيه أرى تعذيبَهُ

عَذْباً وفي استِذْلاله استِلْذاذا

I swear by the one in whom I see his torment

Pleasant and in his humiliation, pleasure.

ما استحسَنَتْ عيني سواهُ وإن سبى

لكنْ سواي ولمْ أكن مَلاّذا

My eye has not deemed good anything but him even if he captivates

But my captivity and I was not refuge.

لمْ يَرْقُبِ الرُّقَبَاءُ إلاّ في شَجٍ

مِن حَولِهِ يَتَسَلّلُون لِواذا

None spied but in yearning

From around him, sneaking about, why?

قد كان قبلَ يُعَدّ من قَتلى رَشاً

أسَداً لآسادِ الشّرى بَذّاذا

He used to be counted before among the dead of Rasha

A lion for the lions of evildoers, wasted.

أَمْسى بنار جوىً حَشَتْ أحشاءَه

مِنْها يرى الإِيقادَ لا الإِنقاذا

He has spent the night in the fire of his passion which

Has made his entrails - from it - see kindling, not rescue.

حَيرانُ لا تلْقَاهُ إلاّ قلتَ مِنْ

كُلّ الجهاتِ أرى بِه جَبّاذا

Perplexed! You will not find him but rarely

From all directions I see him, sturdy.

حَرّانُ مَحنِيُّ الضّلوعِ على أسىً

غَلَبَ الإِسى فاسْتَنْجَذَ اسْتَنْجَاذَا

Inflamed! Distressed of ribs in anguish

That overwhelmed anguish, so he sought, seeking repeatedly.

دَنِفٌ لسيبُ حشىً سليبُ حُشاشةٍ

شَهِدَ السّهادُ بِشَفْعِه مِمْشاذا

Weak! Whom illness has afflicted, so it afflicted

When he saw in his body from his harm, nutrition.

سَقَمٌ أَلمّ به فآلم إذ رأى

بالجِسْمِ مِنْ اغدادهِ اغذاذا

He showed the grief of gloom for his consolation when

Youth died in his bosom, withered.

أبدى حِدادَ كآبَةٍ لِعَزَاهُ إذ

ماتَ الصبَا في فَوْدِه جَذّاذا

So he became, and the enemy was delighted with his youth,

Disguised, and with his old age, craving.

فغَدا وقد سُرّ العِدَى بشبابه

مُتَقَمّصاً وبشَيِبِه مُشْتاذا

The grief of beds - there is no end to its sending -

Grief with that the judgment carried out effectively.

حَزْنُ المَضاجِع لا نَفَاذَ لِبَثّه

حُزْناً بذاك قَضى القضاءُ نَفاذا

He sheds tears repeatedly and does not withhold them, his eyelids,

For the dryness of loved ones, a torrent and spray.

أبداً تَسُحّ وما تشحُّ جفُونُهُ

لِجَفا الأحِبّةِ وابِلاً ورَذاذا

He gave the plains the plains of his tears but

The clouds were stingy with it while he gave generously.

مَنَحَ السُّفُوحَ سُفوح مَدْمَعِه وقد

بَخِلَ الغَمامُ به وجاد وِجَاذَا

The returning ones said when they saw him:

“If the one who killed passion is there, then this is him.”

قال العوائِدُ عندما أبصَرْنَهُ

إنْ كان مَن قَتَلَ الغرامَ فهذا