1. I have endured your separation with unyielding patience,
My eyes pouring tears down my cheeks.

2. You have made me a permanent abode of passion,
A home for sorrow, O abode of beauty and kindness.

3. If I denied what I faced from you, the witnesses
Of my sighing and torment have been proven true.

4. With sigh after sigh that have long attested
That they were wrenched from the breast of one in anguish.

5. But you were hostile towards my body and built with it,
O you who saw the gazelle as hostile to the wolf.