1. Your absence darkens with confusion
Yet should you wish a flare could shine

2. The love I have, were it split
Between all people, would give youth

3. Wake from blaming me amongst people
Who from my heart gained fortune, yet disappeared

4. People think of me, and them, but you
Yours is the kernel of love and wisdom

5. When I wrote to you complaining of injustice
You said, it needs no answer

6. So I lived, feeding my soul on wishes
Saying to each insistence: It will return

7. When a letter ended from me to you
That you might show tenderness, it was discarded

8. You made ready estrangement, so the evening
Became in your reply to my greeting, abuse

9. Affection itself barely remains
When blame and reproach become plentiful

10. I lowered my wing for those who take shelter in you
Yet you received me as if angry