1. My exile's wage, O returning one
Sickness and returning have wearied me

2. My exile's wage, for my home is worries
And a slow-paced, stagnant night

3. Share with me in your home, O dwellings
For you are to me the one homeland

4. Greetings my home, and from you is my day
When the chest and arm embrace you

5. My exile's wage, from the torment of thirst
Has God not allowed you to have mercy

6. Do you persist in estrangement until you see us
Weeping blood and hearts ablaze yet unmoved

7. And I have the strength to see you
So have mercy on my strength awhile

8. If love seeks proof
From death I will respond so you may know

9. Nights have passed, barren, fruitless
Will you idle away the remainder in vain?

10. I ask my wounds who inflicted them
And I make them speak and investigate the accustomed

11. Yet today they brought no good news
Nor excused tomorrow's reunion

12. So when even the lover denies
I turn and ask about you, O foe

13. Peace upon the absent one from my eyes
I carried my rubble to his house

14. And said to my heart, go slowly with us
And hide your misery, or move on

15. Forget the pain, here or it's said
I carried the darkness to its lights

16. Shall I go to the thresholds of bliss
With the scorch of hell and its storm?