1. If you were truthful in your claim of love,
Your heart would not be still, it would flutter.

2. Do not pretend, while your heart is empty
Of us, as you cling to others.

3. Keep pure the places of those like us from others,
And welcome us, for you have the greatest right to do so.

4. If the passion of love moved within you but an hour,
You would seek us, though you are hindered.

5. And I have hated life since you went far from me,
For when you are distant, life has no charm.