1. A grieving, weeping willow
My tears overflowed

2. Agitated by the melody
Of my pain and grief

3. I rested softly by her side
She shook my resting ribs

4. And stoked my thoughts with embers
Penetrating my hearing

5. She won’t leave a courtyard
Without wailing mournfully

6. As if grieving over
A lost, familiar love

7. In her rhyming, the sorrow of the wretched
And the moaning of the pained

8. Lamenting helplessness
In union and separation

9. A specter did circle around my bed
Disturbing my rest

10. Drawing sorrow from my eyelids
And leaving without returning

11.
Alas, the sleepless eyes

12. From the slumbering eyes
Oh men, for women

13. Infatuated and obsessed
No love I sowed

14. In my heart took root
I did not recover since you left

15. Wandering lovesick
If you forgot, I won’t forget

16. The pledges of passion
When you made my neck your pillow

17. And my arms your cradle
My friend, I need your help

18. So hurry
My eyes pour the essence

19. Of my shattered heart
Bind my liver, squeeze

20. My aching heart
When you’re done, it’s not on you

21. To wipe my tears
And if I’m overcome with love’s stupor

22. So I lose awareness
Whisper in my ear the name

23. Of my beloved so I recover and hear
Oh Lord, the words of a pretentious

24. Arrogant, affected critic:
Does he not tread the path

25. Of others in this lament?
This which pleases the censorious

26. So listen or refrain
With it, despite his pain

27. The work of the Majestic Maker
If his era had lasted