لم أقض منك مرادى

ولا شفيت غليلي

I have not attained my desire from you

Nor healed my sickness

يا فتنتي في مقامى

ومحنتي في رحيلي

O my temptation in my dwelling

And my ordeal in my departure

ضللتُ والحب تيهٌ

إلى النجاة سبيلي

I went astray and love is bewilderment

To salvation, my way

فمن سواك نصيري

ومن سواك دليلي

So who but you is my ally

And who but you my guide

أحبّ فيك عذابي

يا هاجري وذبولي

I love in you my torment

O you who migrated from me and faded

وتستطيبُ جفوني

على السهاد عويلى

And my eyelids relish

Weeping on the pillow

يا طيف أنت كتابي

على النوى ورسولي

O specter you are my book

Of purpose and my messenger

فصف لظلام قلبي

مدامعي ونحولي

So describe to the darkness of my heart

My tears and my emaciation

وانقل إليه شكاتي

في حبه ونحولي

And convey to it my complaints

Of its love and my emaciation

وما جناه رقيبي

وما جناه عذولي

And what was perpetrated by my watcher

And what was perpetrated by my injurer

وصف غليل فؤادي

لريقه المعسول

Describe the agony of my heart

To its sweet saliva

وما تجنُّ ضلوعي

للحظه المكحول

And what my ribs have perpetrated

For its intoxicating moment

رباهُ من لأسير

مصفّد مكبول

He brought it up as a captive

Shackled and fettered

يهيم بين رسوم

من المنى وطلول

It raves between traces

Of purpose and hopes

حبست نار حشاه

على غرير ملول

It imprisoned the fire of its ardour

On a folded mattress

مصرّد العطف ضارٍ

على العقوق مطول

With affection barren and harmful

To defiance prolonged