هذا الغرامُ غَرِمْتُ آخرَهُ

عُدْماً لَهُ ورَبِحتُ أَوَّلَهُ

This love I fell into, its end I lost

And its beginning I profited

كم قيل لِي فيمَنْ كَلفتُ بِه

هَذَا غرامٌ فيه أَوْ وَلَهُ

How much was said to me about the one I fancied

This is an infatuation, leave it be

فأَجبت ما قَدْ مرَّ مِنْ جَسَدِي

فيه وما أَبْقاه فَهْوَ لَه

So I responded, what has passed of my body

Is his, and what remains, remains his

لَمْ أَنْس ليلاً كَانَ قَصَّرَهُ

وَصْلٌ بِمَنْ لو شَاءَ طوّلَه

I did not forget a night whose length he shortened

With a union, had he willed he'd have lengthened

وافى وكانَ الصَحوُ حرَّمَهُ

حتى رأَيت السُّكْرَ حلَّله

He came and went while the morning made it unlawful

Until I saw intoxication make it lawful

وشربت من يَدِه مُشَعْشَعَةً

عَلَّت عليلاً كان علَّلَه

And I drank from his hand scintillating

It had weakened me, and he had strengthened

ونَبَذْتُ منديلي بِمَسْحِ فمي

وجَعَلْتُ منديلي مُقَبَّلَهُ

I flung my kerchief, wiping my mouth

And made my kerchief where his lips had been