نضارةُ عيشٍ أزهرت واضمحلَّت

وأيامُ أنسٍ أقبلت ثمَّ ولَّت

The blossoming of a life of joy has withered away,

And days of companionship have come and gone.

ومنفقةٍ باللهوِ أيامَ عمرِها

سروراً رأت ردني بدمعي بلَّت

Days spent in vain amusement and play,

Seeing happiness, my tears started to flow.

فظنَّت عزائي بالملام فأكثرتْ

فلمَّا رأت أن لا عزاءَ أقلَّت

Thinking my crying was out of blame, she increased,

When she saw there was no consolation, she diminished.

فقد عزيت باللوم والقلب بالجوى

فمل ملَّ قلبي والعواذلُ ملَّت

I was consoled by blame, while my heart was consumed by passion,

My heart became weary, and the beauties grew tired.

سقى اللهُ قبراً هلت أمس ترابه

على روح جسمي ليتَ كفِّي شلَّت

May Allah water the grave whose soil was poured

Over the soul of my body, if only my palm would be paralyzed.

غدا سائراً والطرفُ يتبعُ نعشَه

غداة به عيس المنايا استقلَّت

Tomorrow, traveling on, and my eyes follow his bier,

Tomorrow, by it, the pangs of death were made easy.

ولمَّا تصدَّى حائلُ الترب دونه

وعينيَ منه لا فؤادي تخلَّت

When the barrier of dust blocked him from me,

And my eyes from him, not my heart, were separated.

تلفَّتُّ والأحشاء عن مستقرِّها

لشدَّة ما تنزو من الوجد زلَّت

I tossed about while my intestines were displaced

From the spot where they belonged, because of the intensity of the anguish pouring out.

فما خاذلٌ جاءت بخشفين عنهما

وعنها بفقر البيد ضلاّ وضلَّت

No sympathizer came to me with two cheeks

Or with the palm of a hand, went astray and got lost.

بأكثر منِّي يومَ غابَ تلفُّتاً

ولا أدمعاً فيها الجفونُ استهلَّت

More than I, on the day he was absent, tossed about,

And no tears on that day, did the eyelids pour down.