1. Why have you today filled my chest with doubt
When I never arranged from you over the years of time

2. And I was truthful to you until I saw you had
No lies from me, not even a bit

3. What good is it for me to choose your love
A burden I bear, yet never succeed in seeking

4. And I was close to you before your betrayal
So I became further than a grandfather from playing

5. Do not boast of riches made easy for you
No good after loss of honor by greed

6. It would not harm you to grant me your kindness
So what favor have I missed to grant

7. I thought you were, and guessing is tempting,
Glory for the disgraced or haven for the troubled

8. Until I accompanied you in ignorance of your good
Then I tested and found you the worst company

9. If only you had not offered me your friendship
And if only I had been invited yet never answered

10. And I was often absent from your benefit ashamed
Yet lived near you, never absent

11. Indeed he who straightened then bent
And slipped from his path and strayed

12. I shook your love from my palm and it had yellowed
And I returned from your home walking backwards