1. I show you contentment though the soul hides discontent,
And I'm not pleased with myself nor with you.

2. Trustworthiness and treachery, deceit and meanness,
And cowardice stand out clear for me or play tricks.

3. You think my smiles are hope and joy,
Yet I'm just laughing at my own hopes.

4. And I like your feet in shoes though I've seen you
Barefoot when you had no shoes.

5. And you don't know if your color is black
From ignorance or turned purely white.

6. And your heel's patch reminds me of your walk
In a dress of oil, naked.

7. And were it not for people's meddling, I would have come to you praising
What I kept secret for you, aroused.

8. So you're happy with my singing though my singing
Is expensive satire against you.

9. And if you brought no good, I brought
My glances that entertained your playful eyes.

10. And the like of you is brought from faraway lands
To make the ladies in mourning laugh through their tears.