1. Two decades of my life I endure hardship without
Any solace to console me, and my ill fortune does not abate

2. I strive to find a means by which I might live
And banish the ungrateful hunger, O you who believe!

3. Reason in my hands has become mute
And the covenant, the perfidy of oath-breakers has exhausted

4. They laugh together when they meet my misfortunes
While I, my cares bleeding, count out the years

5. How many a rugged path have I trodden
Only to return disappointed, put off with feeble excuses

6. Thirsty, I run without provision, lost,
And betrayal lurks with rapacious craving as always

7. They hope to uproot me effortlessly
Though the soul makes light of tragedies like mine

8. How they have set behind me many eyes to track
The traces of my pens, only to return disappointed

9. They clung like flies to my letters
Hearkening to the sigh of my glance and moan

10. Like bats with their wings they wrought havoc, and grief
Has guided me and discordant wailing wearies me

11. They never sailed but on a sea rowed
Forcefully by oars towards a grudging harbor

12. No shade I hope for to extend over me there
Or a fire to warm cold mouths

13. I wrap my remains above my bier, travelling
A path filled with harm, not shrinking

14. Until sadness is lifted from me, hoping
For the passing of my heart among the annihilators

15. Or I meet the fancy of my quest, issuing
From the shedding of my pains, and water the dreamers