1. My messenger greets you with peace
Even if your homelands have become turbulent, my peace remains

2. I yearn for you, overwhelmed by longing
Revealing the passion I harbor

3. I worry whenever a dove coos
Lest my own dove surprise me

4. I crave sleep not for sleep's sake
But hoping your phantom might visit in a dream

5. And if your phantom came to me at night
I would feign illness, so overcome with love

6. I do not despair of my Salma's phantom
For many an arrow finds its mark though no archer aimed it