1. My heart has become afflicted so no more does it fall short
My passion has become intense so no more can it be concealed

2. My tears flow like heavy rain
My body has become frail, its robe has turned yellow

3. Yet the one I love is faithful
How could he be if he were to abandon me?

4. But the returning stars in their circle consoled me
And the bright moon in its horizon

5. And the fragrant narcissus after the dew in its meadow
And the orange mandal tree

6. I was told about my condition
That I looked pale and my suspicion shows

7. So you showed sympathy for my state
Yet what you show is not what you hide

8. And asked if I was ill
Or burning with longing and desire

9. My lady, you did not treat a lover fairly
When you said what the informer told you

10. Asking “Do you have some pain?
Or a longing you cannot endure?”

11. You wronged my love, known to both the absent and the present
By God, my only illness is love

12. Every love is small beside it
It changed my body so know that

13. I want to meet you but cannot
So seek God’s forgiveness for wronging me

14. For whoever does wrong will seek forgiveness