1. My endurance for your love has vanished
My patience betrayed me and my resolve weakened

2. My eyes denied sleep, so they know naught
But tears and wakefulness

3. O you who combined separation and parting
Upon a lover isolated in yearning

4. Do not, after me, face from your disdain
What I faced of misery and anguish

5. Did recklessness delude you that one
Who loved was not sentenced to death?

6. And that I, in loving you, confess
My eyes have sinned, and my hands

7. Your cheek provided proof against me
Branded, from intimacy, upon my core

8. Verily, mirrors that burn scorch whatever
Their lights faced from afar

9. By a glance that pierces hearts stealthily
With arrows at the ready to strike

10. And a cheek, since I beheld it
I exposed my heart to concerns and distress

11. Had it not proclaimed my war, it would not
Have faced me wearing armor

12. With lips like strung pearls, though
My tears deserted like scattered pearls

13. I sipped from them, so what burning anguish
Followed my sipping that cold drink?

14. You're known for a strength, thereby
Proven more steadfast upon my frame