1. O nights, how bitter are the nights!
You hid your beautiful, beloved face.

2. You are cruel, torturing me. If only I
Could bear the separation and torture!

3. My love for you, with forgiveness, distracted me
And my heart is yours no matter how much I suffer.

4. My beloved, our meeting was strange
And we parted, each becoming a stranger.

5. Except I summon tears - I find
No place for tears but flames.

6. Ah, if only tears would return to my eyes,
My tears dried up and I cannot cry for my beloved.

7. You are the one who changed existence for my eyes,
You made it into beauty and goodness.

8. You are the one who changed the sky for my eyes,
You made it into smiles and welcome.

9. You, O tenderness, melting hearts
And melting the deaf, solid rocks.

10. Yet I came to you from the night
When it was time for darkness to shelter me.