1. This is the book of a longing lover
Anxious, whom desire has left bare

2. He yearns for companions of wit
And reproaches those who mounted the steed of destiny

3. He asks the weeping lightning on the hot sand
About them, with a pounding, fluttering heart

4. And he wipes away the clouds of tears after their absence
From an excess of grief and overflowing eyelids

5. He wishes time would return with their nearness
One day without reaching the day of their separation