1. By my life, this journey has been so long for me,
And I have become one of the few.

2. Shall I emerge from beneath this sky?
How can I escape, and where is the refuge?

3. How many years have I lived in time?
And how many months of Rabi' or Safar have I traversed?

4. The claws of the lions in their dens
Are only for gaining prey.

5. May God destroy a people when you come to them
With the truth of speech, and they claim it's blasphemy.

6. And if the destructive sins are forgiven,
Then all their afflictions can be overlooked.

7. The spirit of a young man is like a bird—
It flies off and does not come back when it takes flight.

8. Congratulations to my body when it comes to rest
And becomes a pile of dust.

9. I do not care who treads the grave or who digs it.
Your world hides from the seeker,

10. And it does not hide from the watcher.