شَوْقٌ شديدٌ ووصلٌ من حَبيبَيْنِ

فلَيْتَ شِعْرِيَ مَا خَطْبُ العَذُولَيْنِ

Intense longing and union of two lovers

I wish I knew what was wrong with being apart

وليت شِعْرِيَ إِذْ لاما وشِعْرَهُما

أَفِي السُّوَيدَاءُ من قَلْبِي ومن عَيْنِي

I wish I knew, when they blamed and reproached

If in my cheeks and in my eyes

وهل أُمَكّنُ من أُذْنَيَّ عَذْلَهُما

فِيهَا إِذَا قامَ عُذْرِي فِي العِذارَيْنِ

Will I allow their blame in my ears

When my excuse stood with the blamers

وَقَدْ تَعَبَّدَنِي ربُّ الهوى فَبِهِ

أَعوذُ من مُشْرِكٍ فِيهِ إِلهَيْنِ

The lord of love made me worship him

So by him I seek refuge from any partner with my God

وَلَيْسَ ذنبِيَ عندَ العاذِلينَ سِوى

أَنِّي أُرى فِي رِضاهُ ثانيَ اثْنَيْنِ

And according to the reproachers my only sin

Is that I see his approval in a second of two

وكم طَلَبْتُ بِهَا الأَيَّامَ مجتهداً

طِلابَ ربِّ نَفيسِ الدَّيْنِ بالدَّيْنِ

And how hard I sought with it days, striving

Seeking to repay my precious soul’s debts with debts

وكم بَذَلْتُ لَهَا فِي الشَّوْقِ مكتئِباً

غُروبَ جفنَيْنِ مَا تشكُو من الأَيْنِ

And how much in yearning, anguished, I spent

The setting of my two eyes, not complaining of where

بدمعِ عينٍ أَبى مَا فِي الضميرِ لَهُ

حَتَّى يُصَيِّرَهُ دمعاً بلا عَيْنِ

With the tears of an eye that refused what was in my conscience

Until he would make it tears without an eye