الصّبرُ بَعْدَكَ لا يكونُ

والخطبُ فيك فلا يَهُونُ

Patience after you cannot be

And tribulations in you cannot diminish

والعقل في هذا المصابِ

من اللَّبيب هو الجُنُونُ

And reason in this affliction

Of the sensible one is madness

بئس القرينُ العيشُ لمَّا

مِتَّ يا نِعْمَ القَرِينُ

Miserable is living when you,

O best companion, died

يا من تحكَّم في المُنى

وتحكَّمتْ فيه المَنُونُ

O you whom fate commanded

And whom the terminator terminated

يا من تَقاضاهُ الرّدى

وله على الدُّنْيا دُيُونُ

O you whom destruction demanded

While over worldly life he had debts

يا ساكناً في اللَّحد حرَّ

كَني وحقِّك ذَا السُّكُونُ

O dweller in the grave burning

My defender, indeed tranquil

سكن الأَنينُ وقد سَكَنْـ

ـتُ فلَيت لا سَكَنَ الأَنِينُ

The sorrows were silenced, and indeed I became silent

If only the sorrows were not silenced

لهفي وقد بُسِطَتْ شِما

لٌ منك أَو قُبِضَتْ يَمينُ

My anxious one, and your hand was outstretched

Or grasped right

وشَخَصتُ وانقطع التَّنَفُّ

سُ مِنك إِذْ قُطع الوَتينُ

I awakened while the breath

From you was cut off when the veins were severed

ولذَاكَ غالبْتُ التَصَبـ

ـرَ فيك إِذ عَرِقَ الجَبينُ

And so I overcame my patience

When sweat ran down my forehead

جرَّعْتَني غُصصاً تكَدَّ

رَ بعدَها الماءُ المَعِينُ

You made me drink bitterness that would

Choke even after it the clear water

وتَركْتني فرداً وأَو

حَشَني التصبُّر والمُعِينُ

And left me alone frightened by patience and its aider

My heart is imprisoned after you

قلبي هو المسجونُ بَعْـ

ـدَكَ والسُّجُون هِيَ الشُّجُونُ

And prisons are but sorrows

You did not disappear from my sight that you

ما غبتَ عن بَصري فأَنْـ

ـتَ لَهُ تَبِينُ ولا تَبينُ

Appear to it, yet you do not appear

You are not the buried in a grave

لَستَ الدّفينَ بحُفْرةٍ

بل أَنت في بَصِري دَفينُ

But you, in my sight, are the buried

And the truth is you reside

والحقُّ أَنك نازلٌ

في منزلٍ سُكْنَاه هُونُ

In an abode stillness made homely

Neither state in the atoms

لا الحالُ حَالٍ في ذُرَا

هُ ولا المكانُ بِهِ مَكينُ

Nor place in it established

I betrayed your love for when I stayed

قد خُنْتُ ودَّك إِذْ بقيـ

ـتُ وأَنت في جَدثٍ رَهِينُ

While you in a niche were detained

I remain and you passed away destroyed

أَبْقَى وتَمضِي هَالِكاً

هذا هو الغَدْرُ المبينُ

That is the evident betrayal

And I stayed bewildered after you

وأُقِيمُ بَعْدك لاَهِياً

قسماً لقد خَانَ الأَمِينُ

I swear the trustee has betrayed

My eyes have no merit should their

لا فَضْلَ عِنْدِي للعُيو

ن لو أَنَّ أَدمعها عُيُونُ

Tears be plentiful springs

You are most precious to the eyes

أَنت العزيزُ على العُيو

نِ ودَمْعُها الماءُ المَهِينُ

While their tears are base waters

And blood has flowed from them

ولَقدْ جَرَتْ منها الدِّما

ءُ كأَنني فِيهَا طَعِينُ

As if inside them I am smeared

O you who prophesized solace

يا مَنْ تَنَبأَ سَلوةً

إِني بدينكِ لاَ أَدِينُ

I by your debt will not be indebted

Who used to hide his sorrow

من كان يكتُمُ حزنَه

فأَنا الحزينُ أَنَا الحَزِينُ

I am the sorrowful one, I am the sorrowful

Neither an unsteady thin build

لا القامةُ الهيفاءُ تَهْ

فُو بي ولا البدَنُ البَدِينُ

Makes me lean nor a fat body

No but no alluring eye

كلاَّ ولا الطَرْفُ الكَحِي

لُ ولا الفُتُورُ ولا الفُتُونُ

Or lassitude or charms

My sorrow sufficed me as a home

حَسبي الأَسَى سَكَناً أَمِيـ

ـلُ إِلى هَواهُ وأَسْتَكِينُ

I lean toward its love and make camp

O grave, spare yourself his effort

يا قَبْرُ جُهْدَكَ صُنْهُ وي

حَك إِنَّه الدُّرُّ الثَمين

He is indeed the precious pearl

And I possessive of him while you

فأَنا الضَنِينُ به وأَنْـ

ـتَ علَيه متَّهم ظَنِينُ

Suspect upon him are suspicious

And I allowed his departure

ولقد سَمَحتُ بِشَخْصِهِ

وعَجِبْتُ إِذ سَمَح الضَّنِينُ

And was amazed when the possessive allowed

If only I knew after your death

يَا لَيْتَ شِعْرِي بعد مو

تِك ما تَراهُ وما يَكُونُ

What you see and what would be

Certainly conviction is death

إِنَّ اليقينَ هو الممَا

تُ وما سِواهُ هُوَ الظُّنُونُ

And anything else is speculations

I swear the doubt became cheapened in the earth

قسماً لقد رَخُصَ التَشكُّـ

ـكُ في الوَرَى وغَلاَ اليَقِينُ

And conviction became expensive

And for nights to band

وعَلَى الليالِي أَن تكدّ

رَ جَمْعَها وأَنَا الضَّمِينُ

Their group while I am the bearer

And man cannot be rid of

والمَرءُ لا يَنْفَكُّ منْ

كدرٍ لأَنَّ المَرْءَ طِينُ

Melancholy for man is of clay formed

And time is a blade and the

والدَّهْرُ نَصْلٌ والأَنِينُ

من الحزين لَهُ طَنِينُ

Sorrowing's are resoundings from the grieved