1. O evil time that has afflicted me
With a deep darkness that has no unveiler

2. I have accompanied it for so long, yet it has not brought me joy
Neither my past days nor my present ones

3. Whenever I try to heal my worries
The unjust one returns to commit his crimes again

4. And whenever I overlook a misstep
My forgiveness encourages him to repeat it

5. He submits to the world because of
Its deceit, both the naive and the wise

6. You have no money to spend in the market of
Your sons except counterfeit coins

7. So how often do I indulge them thinking
That I know cures for their illnesses

8. And many a walking sick who
When examined is just faking it

9. People envy me for a source
That is turbid but cleaned by the strainer

10. And a friend who does not care for my worries
But is preoccupied with what displeases me

11. If he sees a slip from me
He turns away, no sympathizer makes him gentle

12. The high ones are not reached except by a
Youth who bears sorrows and plays the flute

13. And honor is not attained until one is seen
Staying up late, his place of rest known

14. So move on whenever you feel disgraced and
Neither heritage nor friends can set you free

15. Nothing suits ruins except desires
Or a dwelling you are familiar with

16. No disease or worry has left me
While you follow their traces

17. Oh state! I have not gained any good from you
Though I fear much evil from you

18. The turns of fate have abandoned it so
No terrified one circles around it

19. So watch over it when it falls into strife
The evils of its winds are stormy