1. I have benefited in health from abandoning restaurants,
So I have no illness to fear or love to pine for.

2. And if I voice a complaint, I voice it stealthily,
Like a slight, early slice touched with vinegar.

3. And I have become in the world a foolish outcast,
So I have blinded my progeny from harm and injustice.

4. Yet you will not see me digging like a hyena,
Nor for my chicks will I build like the bird builds.

5. If you judge me unjustly, me and my father,
Then you will not judge likewise my daughters or my son.

6. And you have kindled for me the fire of darkness, but I did not
Find your morning pleasant, but rather your fangs in my trunk.

7. And the guest's milk did not curdle when he came knocking
With what is still fermenting in the morning from the milk.