1. Your words I do not call words
In them are the tears of a sad heart

2. I read its lines and I was startled by it
And I surrendered my heart to sighing

3. I complained of the tyranny of the days unjustly
Upon a soul like your soul, O temptation

4. You have wronged me and still call
To impose injustice from time to time

5. I see myself living in a despicable time
Wicked in origin, treacherous, mean

6. And if my living was in other than my time
I would not have suffered the troubles of debts

7. Hardships that attack morning and evening
Without price they come to buy me

8. We have what they have of annoyances
That shake the foundations of the solid mountain

9. Darkness that is not removed, is there a morning
That shows me in the light what it shows me

10. And lines that are not erased, when do I see myself
With the smiles of old age and the serene forehead

11. I notice what I suffer so the springs flow
Tears in my affairs

12. And I go back with a name, I fold my ribs
Upon a heart, its world is bleak

13. Time has prolonged my injustice and sorrow
The lover of injustice has not been stingy