1. By God, by God I do persist
Pondering what wrong I did to you that makes me so surprised

2. And by God I do not know why you abandoned me
And what matters of mine in you O night I should undertake

3. Should I sever the cord of connection though death lies beneath it
Or drink a cup from you that cannot be imbibed

4. Or should I flee so no neighbor I see
Or what should I do or confess and be overpowered

5. So which of them O night will you do
The first is abandoned and the second blameworthy

6. If our souls could meet after our deaths
And without our remains in the earth being buried

7. The echo of my inscription would remain even if I were rubble
To the echoing voice of Layla that startles and tremors

8. And if an eye obeyed me it would not cease
To shed a teardrop or blood when poured