1. Do not bemoan death,
For death has advantages,

2. Dying in the flood of oblivion
Is better than for the gifts.

3. And in dust there is no need
For our sleeping in the pits.

4. I walk towards death
With greetings every day.

5. On earth I am but
A remnant of remnants

6. A fragment from the building
Of life among the fragments

7. An example for fools
And a lesson for the wretched

8. A small soul
In the cells

9. Which will soon be taken
By death from time.

10. What is the difference but little
Between dawn and nightfall?

11. I welcome your death if
Death were a mount.

12. My soul is one of the victims
Of its lust for life

13. I wish the secrets
Of life would appear to me.

14. Death catches up if
It takes the elderly and the youth

15. While life makes
The prosperous forget death.

16. The issue of death comes
Behind all issues.