1. I became sleepless as if I were in love with sleeplessness,
And I wasted away as if sickness was created for me.

2. My tears flowed down my cheek and burned it,
So whoever saw a drowning man burning in water?

3. The paths of tears from my eyes to my liver
Overflowed, even though speaking would cure me.

4. And someone said to me, “Where is your patience?” I said to him,
“My heart is full of sorrows, so it caught fire.”