يَا بَلائِي مِنَ التِي خَتَلَتْنِي

بِدَلاَلِ بِهِ تُصَادُ النُّفُوسُ

Oh my affliction from she who has misled me

With coquetry by which souls are bought

كَتَمَتْنِي الهَوَى لِتَخْدَعَ قَلْبِي

وَالهَوَى فِي ضَمِيْرِهَا مَحْبُوسُ

Desire concealed me to deceive my heart

While desire within her conscience lies confined

تَصْرِفُ اللَّحْظَ حِيْنَ تَنْظُرُ نَحْوِي

وَبِأَحْشَائِهَا جَوىً وَرَسِيْسُ

The glance turns whenever she looks towards me

While within her breast ardour and whispering reside

وَتَرَانِي فَيَضْحَكُ القَلْبُ مِنْهَا

جَذِلاً بِي وَإِنْ عَلاَهَا عُبُوسُ

She sees me and so my heart laughs because of her

Timid of me even when gloom shrouds her

وَإِذَا مَا اقْتَرَحْتُ صَوْتَاً عَلَيْهَا

كَايَدَتْنِي بِأَنَّهُ مَحْبُوسُ

And if I proffer any sound to her

She silences me, saying it lies confined

وَهْيَ لاَ تَهْتَدِي لِهَذَا وَلَكِنْ

هَوَ مَمَّا أَفَادَهَا إِبْلِيْسُ

Yet she strays not towards this, but rather

It is of what Iblis has imparted to her