1. I have borne sorrow and my resolve overflowed
After my youth melted away in laments

2. And I still gather shreds
Wandering fettered by difficulties

3. So I folded up the years crawling in obedience
With my provision and voyage being my calamities

4. The paths hide from me their ways
And the dust of my sins lashes my mantle

5. And my sails are my patience, and my glory is in my steadfastness, and in trials my desires
Whenever time advanced in my journey

6. The black nights mauled me with their fangs
Wounded by afflictions, sorrow wrings me out, and panic assaults my melted heart

7. And in life I felt estranged by my woes, and in exile I accompanied my misfortune
And I drank dregs from the cream of my truth, from a generous cup of drink

8. Barrenness afflicted me along with senility, I see them still in my train
So youth is but dust in my palms

9. And lifetime but a handful of soil
I scattered over the adversity of nights

10. That roar ravenously like wolves
And I sing among them my hopes

11. With the melodies of my well-tuned lute
I chant so beauty responds to me, and my companions sing with my voice

12. And the charm of my songs sounds sweet, so the responsive echo to it inclined
And I compose anthems from the melting of a soul

13. That flows uninterrupted like lava
But then disease is on the peripheries of my times

14. Its edges overflowing in my attire
My ailment grew from sorrows but I did not waver, so its turns toughened my endurance

15. My sweetheart, lifes flower and the most precious thing in my hands of painful hopes
And my heart which I stood by all lifetime, I water it with pouring blood

16. Spring of life threw it to sickness, so I lost my sanity
And I tossed in my place painfully, and with my patience I resisted affliction

17. I never complained of sorrow and never felt annoyed by sickness, even if destiny bloodied my sword
And my solace is beautiful patience from whose gentleness I weave the purest clothes

18. Except my heart suffers what I suffer, so I came to beg my Lord for reward