1. What doubts you of my worries,
And of the news of my side away from my bed?

2. For me in every dawn is a friend
I part with without yearnings and cravings

3. And I take off his connection against my will
As my hand took off from me my pillow

4. How long is this sequence and continuation
And how long is this persistence and contention

5. And how many frowning faces make me gloomy, not smiling
And fasting like palms, unavoidable

6. Through it is my rise and fall
And from it is my setback and my shuddering

7. And what is this focusing on the worthless
Led to dissolution and vanishing

8. So a hitting of heads without moaning
And a stabbing of throats without a slaughterer

9. My toes warn me of disasters
If they cramp, preventing my recovery

10. And it redeems the feeble with a slight limp
And precedes the rider faster than the walker

11. And how many a young man survived calamities
And returned him to the soft bed

12. So you who wait for my inflammation
When will my inflammation come by your hand?

13. I was shocked by the satisfier of desires generously
And the assuager of the thirst of ardour thirstily

14. And the bestower of blows on the day of peace
And the striker of kidneys on the day of skirmishing

15. His love penetrated the mother of my head
And his affection pierced my temples

16. And he saddled me with sorrow over him
I wish it was for another my preparation

17. And I faced tribulations with dignity
So my misery led my diminution

18. And I said to whoever sneered at him
And seeks blame like an arrowhead

19. You reproach me while your mind is not my mind
And you condemn me while your temper is not my temper

20. And I have taken no friend but him
And no love possesses me but his possession

21. For if I seek an alternative
I seek the bitter from thirst

22. So after losing you I have no pleasant soul
Nor any little life from my livelihood