1. I am absent from you with a love that time and distance do not change
If I live, perhaps fate will reunite us one day

2. And if I die, I will be a martyr to sorrow and grief
God has made everything you do seem beautiful in my eyes

3. So that I see beauty in what is not beautiful
You are kept from corresponding with me by your preoccupations

4. But preoccupation is of the heart, not of the body