1. I abandoned you out of fear of the slanderers' words
And abandoning you is like abandoning life

2. And you are precious to me like my eyes
And eyes do not escape specks of dust

3. If not for love, my sorrow would not have eased
Nor would my qualities have been refined by your hands

4. And they said you have fallen in love, so I said love
Is like what the passion has proposed, so who would object

5. With my soul, whoever when I intended praise
Of a beauty in it, my qualities fell short

6. And if anything would make lovers needless
Or defend them, my protective instincts would have