1. I have become weary from the days in haste
And from my early hopes in repose

2. And each day that comes upon me teaches me
That I am at the brink of death, anxious and wary

3. And I do not doubt, though my life be long
That my day is between Pisces and Aries

4. I blame myself and spur my soul from laziness
Upon waking at night to work

5. And it acquiesces to my blame and chides me
While it is compliant, it calls me to laziness

6. With what I have seen, my heart turns blind
My eyes look upon the changes of people in fortunes

7. How many have spent the night in might and generosity
Among clans, wealth, and youth

8. Yet morning found them assaulted by fate
Or mishaps after might and vigor

9. And spent the night between sheets of soil in shroud
Or held captive in shackles and chains

10. Or honored but spent the night restless
From illness, side by side, prisoner of harm and ailments

11. Each day of my death is a day I loathe
Followed by a day of continuous horrors

12. For death equalizes, and its occurrences
Do not differentiate between kings and lowly sellers