1. O you who sleeps with eyes averted from my wakefulness and my vigil
And a heart devoid of my passion and my torment

2. Why do I befriend a soul tortured
Between opposites of burning and drowning

3. And the strangest thing you hear
Is a tear staunched by scorched eyelids

4. At times I am hopeful of union
And at others despairing of parting

5. How often I sent my breaths to you bearing
My regards, but my heart said "do not trust"

6. As if my sighs in her essence
Were hot desert winds in withered leaves

7. Would that love for lovers had not been created
Or would that I had not tasted love when they tasted it

8. This separation and estrangement brings about
O heart, patience for two deaths in one draught

9. I say to my soul though longing overcomes it
How to escape amid the ruggedness and slipperiness?

10. O eye, you have wandered, so be tearful
O heart, you have tarried in thought, so burn