1. O conscience, tell me, though you are no informer,
And your brother Nafi, who does not lie,

2. Is it the case that when you become self-sufficient
And feel secure, I become the distant foreigner?

3. And when hardships come with repeated hardships
I draw close to comfort you, as the most loving and nearest?

4. How strange is that situation and my staying
With you in that situation - even stranger!

5. While you enjoy the fine land and its pastures
I have the barren places and their meager grazing.

6. When the land becomes hateful I pray for it,
When the good life turns harsh, it is called sparse.

7. By your lives, this is it exactly,
I have no mother or father, if that is the case.