1. What do I say if he comes asking me
If I hate him or love him?

2. What do I say when his fingers
Gather the night from my hair and stroke it?

3. How can I allow him to draw near with his seat?
And for his arms to sleep on my waist?

4. Tomorrow if he comes...I will give him back his letters
And we will feed the fire the sweetest of what we wrote

5. My love! Am I really his beloved?
Can I believe his claim after estrangement?

6. Did not my story with him end years ago?
Did not the threads of his memory die out?

7. Did we not break the cups of love long ago
So how can we cry over a cup we broke?

8. His things...his little things torture me
So how can I escape from the things he nurtured?

9. On the benches some of his cigarettes
And in the corners...remnants of his remnants

10. What makes me stare in the mirror...and ask
In which clothes did I meet him?

11. Shall I pretend that I've come to hate him?
And how can I hate the one living in my eyelids?

12. And how can I escape him? He is my fate
Can a river change the course of its stream?

13. I love him...I know not what I love in him
Even his sins are no longer his sins

14. Love on earth...is something we invented
If we did not find it...we would have invented it

15. What do I say if he comes asking me
If I love him. I love him madly...