جلوتِ لنا شيئاً من الدرِّ عاطِلاً

بعيشِكِ لِم جنّبتِه الجيدَ والنّحرا

You served us some dull pearls of yours.

Why, with your life, did you deprive them of the excellent and pure parts?

فقالَت ولم تكذِب خشيت سقوطَهُ

وأومت إلى فيها فنظّمه ثَغرا

She said - and did not lie - "I feared their downfall.

So I tended to put in them a mouth."

كَذَلِكَ إِن عَضّ السّوارُ بِمِعصَمي

وَحَاولَ أَن يُدمِيهِ حَمّلتُهُ الخَصرا

Likewise, if the bracelet bites my wrist

And tries to make it bleed, I move it to my waist.