أَضحى فُؤادَكَ غَيرَ ذاتِ أَوانِ

بَل لَم يَرُعكَ تَحَمُّلُ الجيرانِ

Your heart is no longer the same as before

Yet you did not care to endure the neighbors

بانوا وَصَدَّعَ بَينَهُم شَعبَ النَوى

عَجَباً كَذاكَ تَقَلُّبُ الأَزمانِ

They appeared and the people of Nawaa were divided

How strange is the turn of time

أَخطا الرَبيعُ بِلادَهُم فَتَيَمَّنوا

وَلِحُبِّهِم أَحبَبتُ كُلَّ يَمانِ

Spring abandoned their country so they became destitute

And for my love of them I loved all of Yemen

اللَهُ يَرجِعُهُم وَكُلُّ مُجَلجِلٍ

واهي العَزالي مُعلَمَ الأَوطانِ

God will return them and every wavering one

The desolate dwellings are signs of homelands

وَلَقَد أَبيتُ ضَجيعَ كُلِّ مُخَضَّبٍ

رَخصِ الأَنامِلِ طَيِّبِ الأَردانِ

And I refused to sleep on any bloodstained bed

Cheap bedspreads of aromatic juniper

عَبِقِ الثِيابِ مِنَ العَبيرِ مُبَتَّلٍ

يَمشي يَميدُ كَمِشيَةِ النَشوانِ

Clothes perfumed with fragrance soaked

Walking slowly like the gait of an afflicted one

دَعصٌ مِنَ الأَنقاءِ إِن هِيَ أَدبَرَت

أَو أَقبَلَت فَكَصَعدَةِ المُرّانِ

A branch of the virtuous, whether coming or going

Is like the ascent of myrrh

يَجري عَلَيها كُلَّما اِغتَسَلَت بِهِ

فَضلُ الحَميمِ يَجولُ كَالمَرجانِ

Running over it whenever it is washed

Is the excess of steaming heat flowing like coral

سَقِياً لِدارِهُمُ الَّتي كانوا بِها

إِذ لا يَزالُ رَسولُهُم يَلقاني

Irrigating their house in which they were

When their messenger still comes to me

وَلَقَد خَشيتُ بِأَن أَلُجَّ بِهَجرِكُم

إِنَّ الحَبيبَ مُذَهِّلُ الإِنسانِ

And I feared to be afflicted with your estrangement

For a lover bewilders a person

بَل جُنَّ قَلبُكَ أَن بَدَت لَكَ دارُها

جَزَعاً وَكِدتَ تَبوحُ بِالكِتمانِ

But your heart was hurt when her house appeared to you

In anguish, you almost confessed in secret