1. O you whose face is like the moon
And whose heart is like stone

2. O you who is exalted in this world
While I have no standing with you

3. O you who in this world
I have none but you as solace

4. Did it delude you that your love
Burns fiercely in my heart's core?

5. With power over my body
Leaving neither trace nor mark

6. And that whenever I sin
I come to you pleading forgiveness

7. While you are forever unjust
And I cannot overcome you in strength

8. What do you know of fate
And the lessons within its twists?

9. Perhaps you will be tested with what
I was tested, and I will gloat

10. When I spurn you, my heart
Nearly shatters into pieces

11. By God, if I could endure
Estrangement, I would find relief

12. For eyes that have long suffered
In sleepless sorrowful nights

13. Oh you ignorant of love
Ask me for news

14. Its taste is bitter
While its unmixed essence is turmoil

15. My days are but tears
My nights naught but wakefulness

16. My eyelids rain pearls
While my heart is filled with thoughts

17. And it was my misfortune that
I glanced, so glance pierced me