1. Forgive me if I accused you of fickleness
For I was absent from my senses

2. Forgive me, perhaps my actions
Were screams of horror at the sight of my torment

3. And the echo of despair my ribs returned
Or my weeping over the safety of youth

4. You were not as I claimed, but
What I read in the book distraught me

5. And by my life, I saw loyalty in you
In which there was not a speck of my doubt

6. Forgive me what I said in my madness
And come, let me explain my plight to you

7. Many a lofty palace of fantasies
Whose stars shaded beneath its wings

8. All kinds of flowers grew around it
And passion watered them with the breath of its comfort

9. We dwelled in it safely for a time
Its roses and thorns protected me

10. No storms shook its pillars
Yet it failed in its struggle like them

11. Then there was a hand, I shall stay silent about
That demolished it to the level of dust

12. Where is that sky, was that palace
Really built of clouds?

13. Forgive me, for the most wretched lover
Is a lover whose life is memories

14. Wherever I was, the heart was stirred by memories
Depicted by our lasting vestiges

15. And here, ah, they are kisses
And here a bird repeats a conversation

16. From which these words have not been absent
Oh my life, do not get angry and come

17. Embrace me and shorten your reproach
According to my heart, its torment, so forgive me

18. Oh my life, for I have met my punishment