1. A Hindi woman wonders at my yearning for the waterhole,
Yet is it any wonder that one parched should yearn for the rose's draught?

2. Gently, girl - you have never held a heart at peace,
Consumed with passion, or shed a tear down your cheek.

3. For you've not tasted the savor of youth and bliss,
Or passed a night with your lover as promised.

4. When lightning tells you of his smile,
I weep a bereft woman's tears of anguish.

5. And I yearn with the longing of the sleepless,
Were it not for you, no yearning would have wasted me.

6. Were it not for the agony of parting I know,
I'd not stay wakeful till dawn from dusk.

7. May God guard a heart that leaves not the joy of youth
For some beauty, or yearning for glory.

8. He craves that necklace not out of affectation,
But from a longing for where the necklace lay.

9. "Absence has turned his love from me," she said.
Can love like mine change with absence?

10. I've lost a lover who broke his vow,
Yet was it anything to last unbroken?