1. I confessed my love when hints were unavailing,
And parted from you though the nights were beguiling.

2. My joys I translate for none but you,
If twisted, for weighing, a wounding refining.

3. O you who departed, yet still stir my heart!
Long has your journey been, long my tears falling.

4. Seek not permission from ears that consent not,
For the door of my heart is open to whom I adore.

5. No blame or rebuke in you do I hear,
To me blame and breeze are the same.

6. O you who reproach me for sorrows I bear
Gently, for the moans of love are praise.

7. When you see the tears rain down from my eyes
Think not my heart has been pierced through.

8. Strangest thing you hear though it startles your ears
Is a body reveling in what hurts its soul.

9. Ways I have sought to answer its yearning call
When hints may serve better than words can at all.

10. Rising in me confused, my heart distraught,
My mind imprisoned, my tears raining in flood.

11. A heart where lines of longing lie inscribed,
A tablet whose range no scroll could contain.

12. I said, "I'm forbidden to voice all it has stored"
By the Pure and Holy One's refrain.