1. Your kindness has captivated my grateful tears
And your generous hands have freed a captive's fears

2. If with grace you lessen my burden, know truly
With your gifts you've weighed down heavily this weary

3. Your prayers have never ceased reaching me
To aid me and bolster my strength steadfastly

4. In hardships your heart is an ocean's expanse
And in deserts a wasteland your chest at a glance

5. When after absence I'd come before your face
Hoping, my worries and woes losing their place

6. With gladness you'd greet me, blessing my eyes
Contentment receiving me, filling my sighs

7. Why accustom me to more than my share?
When your chest holds the breadth worlds cannot bear

8. I've excused you, an ocean bound to its tide
To flow out and ebb in, I cannot deride

9. I thought until thinking left me confused
I searched until searching no answers infused

10. No reason I found for your sudden disgrace
Maybe I've erred, I know not, truth be told in my case

11. If I've caused you harm, seek no recompense
For my lord knows my cause and the weight of my expense

12. My means cannot suffice my household and mount
And I'll not shorten my days for a mere discount

13. I beg not with my face bowed before mankind
Nor have I gained wealth through the fruits of my mind

14. I've endured beyond what my shoulders could lift
And spent past the bounds of what meager gifts

15. I've bought water with wealth and gathered goodness with grace
And earned but one day's wage for a whole month's space

16. So how, when the lean days of fast have crept in
And emptied what slim purse that I had tucked within

17. Has circled round them a babe, heavy of hips
Smooth faced, slender-waisted, sipping his sips

18. A wine whose body is made of pure ruby
Begot through the mixture, daughter of pearl jewels

19. Both flame that sparked underneath cooling fonts
And icicles formed above simmering embers

20. I've emptied its cup through the days one by one
Lavishing the sweetness of my fleeting life

21. And it matters me not if in my stupor I've missed
Praising you, muddled mind forgetting your gifts