1. He was cheerfully singing
Infatuated by beauty

2. Then love smiled at him
So he wished well

3. But then love struck him with affliction
That changes the tune

4. He started wandering sadly
Though long he had sung

5. Love judged him
How unfair the judge!

6. Be content with it
For I am pleased

7. Leave the past be
If you returned to the past

8. You'd find an hour's union
And an age's abandonment

9. What I have tasted
In the words of Abi Salma

10. Love leads the youth
While his heart is blind

11. It elevates him until when
It brings him to the stars

12. It throws him from the summit
Shattering him to pieces

13. We both lived with hope
Sending it out in poetry

14. That is mere dust
Revived by memories

15. We shape it into a smile
Or tears that flow

16. We suffer until comes
The grand respite