1. My heart's wound is healed by imagination,
But can a heart really be healed by imagination?

2. I'm jealous of the beauty that captures my love,
Oh God, the power of beauty!

3. My love is fleeting,
My sighs for our separation are endless,

4. As if when I imagine him,
I'm a confused dreamer.

5. I die for him and for her and I live on,
The kindness of love comes and goes.

6. My soul rises with beauty towards it,
When its melodies are stilled by beauty.

7. I see him in all things with my eyes,
And the clear water makes me shine because of him.

8. His meanings make me weep, and my mind
Is humbled by the majesty of his rising.

9. He commands whoever understands his state,
And lovers have no choice in their state.

10. I confide my pain and passion in him,
And I have no shade in my confiding.

11. Through loving him I became gentle and refined,
With no precedent or equal here.

12. Speaking of him made speech sweet for me,
So I composed poetry of his charming, permitted magic.

13. Whenever the beloved is praised,
Praise is pleasant and space expands.

14. Oh you who meaning itself bows down to,
And you whose traits are alluring.

15. Your estrangement is sweet to me my master,
Yet being apart from you torments me.

16. You cut off my affection without cause,
So let me ask you about this.

17. Pardon my deliberately cutting contact,
And the pleasure of this separation to you.

18. If that was aggression and injustice,
Time will inevitably unravel it.

19. Or come back and favor me with nearness,
To dissolve your anger at me.

20. Let us rest, for we are tired,
And the enemy's talk has increased.

21. By your life, this world is an illusion,
And the fate of all in it is to pass away.