1. I rode the donkey though it pained me sore
This stubborn beast that trudges evermore

2. My legs tucked by its sides since first I mounted
I'll walk not ride this ass another day

3. Love's wonderous ways confound me even more
All exiles die from yearning I would say

4. Though bodies separate, souls together stay
In glances and in hearts we're tucked away

5. Daily, soil where tents were pitched we lay
Beside a friend though he's now far away

6. I leave an empty camp, it hurts like parting
From brother, son - kin of blood and heart

7. My teardrops fall, from every land departing
As if I'd lost a lover, home, and start

8. But for this exile, I'd have missed life's art
No wise man thrives at home - unlike his counterpart