1. She said: I love you and this love torments me
And sets me on a thorny path

2. I said: Love is never so different
That two could disagree on its hidden meaning

3. She said: Does my love cause you torment? I said: No
She said: Are we then so different?

4. I said: Hear me out, my joy and torment
We are but children in the arms of passion

5. We laugh and cry in the same moment
Passion has joined these opposites

6. So when we cry, our tears say
I'll flow forevermore

7. But the child's heart between our ribs
Cannot bear the sorrows

8. It recoils from sadness in an instant
And the tears last but a few moments

9. It forgets, and what a gift for our hearts
If you knew the gift of forgetting

10. In my longing there lives a throbbing child
Terrified by the tyranny he's seen

11. I taught him not to reveal his secret
But when he saw you, he disobeyed me

12. He gave you my whole history
So you knew my love and standing

13. My coolness lured you and you burned in its fire
And you felt the coolness amidst my flames

14. Before you I burned my childhood games
Willingly, and grew up before my time

15. And chose the prison of waiting
For I could not escape love's grip

16. I love you, my beautiful fate, and I have
Only acceptance, even in my disgrace

17. I will always love you, I will say it
With the tongue of my heart, not my mouth