لِسانُكَ السَّيفُ لا يَخفى له أثَرُ

لِسانُكَ السَّيفُ لا يَخفى له أثَرُ

وأنتَ كالصِّلِّ لا تُبقي ولا تَذَرُ

وأنتَ كالصِّلِّ لا تُبقي ولا تَذَرُ

Your tongue is a sword; its mark cannot be hidden.

Your tongue is a sword that leaves no trace

And you are like a viper: you spare nothing and leave nothing.

You are like glass that leaves nothing, not even a speck

سِرِّي لديكَ كأسرارِ الزُّجاجةِ لا

سِرِّي لديكَ كأسرارِ الزُّجاجةِ لا

يَخفى على العَينِ منها الصَّفوُ والكَدَرُ

يَخفى على العَينِ منها الصَّفوُ والكَدَرُ

My secret with you is like the secrets of a glass vessel: neither

My secrets are with you like the secrets of a glass

its clarity nor its cloudiness is hidden from the eye.

Its clarity and murkiness are plain for the eye to see

فاحذَرْ من الشِّعرِ كَسْراً لا انْجِبَارَ له

فاحذَرْ من الشِّعرِ كَسْراً لا انْجِبَارَ له

فللزُّجاجَةِ كَسْرٌ ليسَ يَنجَبِرُ

فللزُّجاجَةِ كَسْرٌ ليسَ يَنجَبِرُ

So beware a fracture caused by poetry that cannot be mended;

So beware of shattering poetry that cannot be mended

for a glass vessel's fracture cannot be mended.

For glass, once shattered, can never be repaired