1. How I long for the horse festival
Yet I have no patience for your absence

2. How can I be cheerful and joyous
When sorrow boils like water over fire

3. I tend the stars in the darkness
From sunset to dawn’s first light

4. Then spend the day in misery
Pleading, with copious tears

5. How can I deny love exists
When its witnesses are tears and pallor

6. O duration of time, O my wish
Did we not once play together as children?

7. The morning breeze reminds me of you
And Venus, dawn, and the desert sands

8. The bird’s melody in the thicket
Lightning’s flash and meadows after rain

9. Tears rain on my cheeks
And passion kindles flames in my heart

10. So find a way for us to meet
For our reunion admits no delay