أصبحت لا يملك بعضي بعضا

أصبحت لا يملك بعضي بعضا

أشكو العروق الآبضات أبضا

أشكو العروق الآبضات أبضا

I have become a man whose limbs no longer obey one another;

I have become such that one part of me cannot control another.

I suffer from veins that pulse in painful throbs,

I complain of the sinews drawing painfully tight,

كما تشكى الأرحبي الغرضا

كما تشكى الأرحبي الغرضا

كانما كان شبابي قرضا

كانما كان شبابي قرضا

as an Arhabi camel suffers from the saddle-girth—

As an Arhabi camel complains of its tightened girth,

as though my youth had merely been a loan.

As though my youth had been a loan.