1. I made you the apple of my eye
And ransomed you with the blackness of my eyes

2. I became enamored with you and chose you over my peers
And children, so I was hostile towards them

3. I was ignorant of my fatherhood and denied my rights
And you met affection with stubbornness

4. Do you forget my good upbringing and kindness
And all the favors I bestowed upon you

5. I hoped in you as a staff for my old age
And mainstay if my pillars gave way

6. And if the hands of youth break my bones
You would be to me like a bandage

7. And I had not lost hope in you disappointing me
And missing my guess and deduction

8. May you show me affection, O my beloved
And abandon your intention to be distant