Nights without company

Whenever my imagination wipes the blackness of the night with my eyes

And keeps the birds of sleep away from my bed

Then daydreams flutter over my desires

Those that block all my contemplations from me

So I see myself still as if I have lost my way

When my thoughts sail in ships

And dive into the depths of my speculations

And nothing bears my stubbornness except my breath

After oppression, it struggles with my loneliness

And my mind sleeps like a blind man

Lost in the love of my friend

When my companion comes late

What harm is there in a stranger who does not know me

But what hurts me is the one who is close to me

How do I know if it is dusk or dawn?

And how does sleep dare to seduce me?

And how do I find a refuge or an outlet?

I tasted the bitterness of time until

And he sold me to him for a mustard seed

Nothing saved me from him except beautiful patience

And forgiveness did not reach me with praise

O companion of the night, give me good news in the morning

And remember what you promised me

For I did not marry out of repentance for the covenant

And I did not sleep nights nor return from them

No matter how much the union exhausted me, I bid him farewell

With a painful eyelid and I did not surrender to the wakefulness

Oh night, how many times did insomnia die in you?

Your condition improves after defeating the dead

For you are the doctor and there is no medicine for your wounds

Drunk by your silence and the one in love with you is wronged

When you draw your curtains on the beloved

He waits for your company as the breast waits for the infant

Ah from the flames of longing when it is prolonged

For with kindness and closeness hearts live

And the night with its stars the moon shines beside it

For you who left your beloved do not wait to meet him

And so love is for the loyal lover only

Ah if I knew what the meeting is after separation

And the night erases from my misery what it wills