1. قَمرٌ إذا عاتَبتُه

    كانتْ قطيعَتُهُ جَوابي

    A moon—whenever I reproach him,

    his estrangement is the answer I receive.

  2. مُتجرِّمٌ أبداً يُجر

    رِعُنِي مَراراتِ العتابِ

    Ever finding fault, he makes

    me swallow the bitterness of reproach.

  3. كم سهَّلَتْ عيناهُ لي

    من وصلِه وعْرَ الطِّلابِ

    How often his eyes made easy for me

    the arduous quest for union with him,

  4. حتى وقعتُ ولم يَكُن

    هذَا التلَّونُ في حِسابي

    until I fell, and I had not

    reckoned with this fickleness.