1. O self, if you could see the affairs
As the rest of the people see them

2. None would accuse me of madness
And I would not find harm in people

3. Yesterday the great procession passed
In it the rider and the barefooted one

4. And the army of fever came threatening
Shouting the heroic conqueror has returned

5. What is wrong with you, why don’t you cheer
For the owner of power and conquest

6. You said to me laughing and mocking
Woe to you, this is the killer of people

7. And a gathering where cups revolved
The people drank but you did not drink

8. And the souls filled with rapture
While you in your silence were not raptured

9. As if absent-mindedness secluded you
Or pleasures were lost in fantasy

10. What is wrong with you, why don’t you laugh
At the laughing loved one in the cup

11. She said, “It has forbidden me that the waves of years
Will overwhelm the cups and the senses”

12. And I walked in the garden, beauty spread
In it and love spread among the birds

13. The hanging fruits in it like tears of a flirt
And its thorns like the talk of delusions

14. I walked in its corners like a specter
Roaming in the darkness among the graves

15. As if there were no roses in the jasmine
As if there were no fragrance in the myrtle

16. And it tells me, neither in my solitude you are raptured
Nor when I was with people

17. There was a time you found pleasure
In every misleading illusion like a mirage

18. Until when the face of certainty dawned
You saw it like an illusion, something very deceptive

19. The life of creation is a night and a clear dawn
And there is nothing in your life but haze

20. The trees did not appear to the onlookers
Except I saw the ghost of the cups

21. Nor did I hear the ringing cup
Except I heard the breaking of the cup

22. You changed the color of daylight in my eyes
When you glimpsed the night at the observatory

23. And the tune of jest died in my ears
When you preceded silence to the singer

24. So pleasures escaped before escape
And my day was lost, confused about tomorrow

25. You disagreed with the criteria of all people
So how can they accept my criteria

26. People have not changed as you know
And I have not stopped being one of the people