1. My angel, cease reproaching me, for grief has left me sick
Leave me be, lest before this my heart break into pieces

2. Know you not that the blamed is tortured so?
And that my brother met the fate of all, and so did pass away

3. I prepared him well for life's misfortunes
So he became the greatest of misfortunes, and the most dire

4. And I warded off death from him with all my wealth
Yet I brought it to him in the end, despite my efforts

5. Father Ja'far, if fate has brought you low
And the fates have turned against you and made haste

6. Leaving me easy prey for every disaster
So each day I cower, distraught with fear

7. My eyes cease not in shedding scalding tears for you
And without you I bow, humbled and brought low

8. With you gone, I grieve no more for the dead
For when you left, you made all grief lighter

9. I will shield my eyes from seeing others, and spread myself upon the earth
For my life, when the earth became your bed

10. I protected you from what I feared, though I'd no power
To turn back what God ordained when it came to pass

11. And if I'd been given a choice, fate would not let me
And I'd have been comforted for the loss of you, my brother

12. For I'm ashamed before all people that I should live
While you are dead, and I still drawing breath

13. No day has passed in this ordeal like the day you left
It was so bitter, it allowed no comfort, no consolation

14. Within my chest there lies a settled anguish
That keeps my heart in pain with the memory of you

15. It eases my torment that we know
Beyond our home here lies a home where we will meet again