غَلَبَتْ عَلَيَّ لِبُعْدِكُمْ أَشْجانِي

وَجَفا الكَرَى مِنْ بَعْدِكُمْ أَجْفانِي

My yearnings have overwhelmed me due to your absence,

And my eyelids have dried after you all.

وَتَضَرَّمَتْ بَيْنَ الجَوَانِحِ لَوْعَةٌ

إِطْفاؤُها أَعْيَا عَلى الطُّوفانِ

Between my ribs lies a burning anguish,

Quenching it has exhausted the floods.

هَيْهاتَ يَدْنُو الصّبْرُ مِنِّيَ بَعْدَهَا

وأَنَا البَعيدُ الأَهْلِ والأَوْطَانِ

Alas! Patience stays far from me after that,

While I am distant from family and home.

لَوْ أنَّ ثَهْلاناً تَحَمَّلَ بَعْضَ ما

حُمِّلْتُهُ خَرَّتْ ذُرَى ثَهْلانِ

If Mount Thahlan endured some of what

I have been burdened with, its peaks would crumble.

أَسْرٌ وقَسْرٌ لا قَرَارَ عَلَيْهِما

وَتَغَرُّبٌ عَنْ أسْرَتِي ومَكَانِي

Captivity and coercion with no rest between them,

And estrangement from my family and home.

هَذا وَكَمْ أَثْناء هَذا مِنْ أَسىً

فَضَح العَزَاء ومِنْ هَوىً وَهَوانِ

And amidst this, how much sorrow,

Exposed grief, passion and disgrace!

ويَهُونُ ذَلِكَ لِلْفِراقِ وطَعْمِهِ

إنَّ الفِراق هُوَ الحِمامُ الثَّانِي

And that is trivial compared to the taste of separation,

For separation is the second annihilation.