1. My chest tightens, and the world closes in,
When loyalty is betrayed by a friend.

2. Thirsty, I trusted the water for a cup,
I drank, and within me blazed a fire.

3. Sadness and people awake besieged me,
How can the eye awaken in death?

4. Sunset contends with me the darkness of night,
It has a sun, unleashed at dawn.

5. Angrily I walked as the sidewalk bent toward me,
The pavement of sorrow mounting above the road.

6. I crossed its murmuring as people surrounded me,
Like the slave's shackle, feared by the weak.

7. I held my sigh within a blazing chest,
While the voice of my heart within me was free.

8. Passion dried up and my tears poured down
Like the sea's waves battering a drowning man.

9. Rolling down the cheek of sorrow fastest,
The bowl of my cheek enticed by carnelian.