1. For the passing of all that you see
So learn from the shadows and signs

2. The difference of night and day is but
Like the crossing of swords in battle

3. The sun rises then sets in tears
Of blood-stained tents of beautiful girls

4. And it's as though the sky fears the nights
When it shows with a harvested pallor

5. And it's as though life's a crime and the living
Have only the fruit of decay as reward

6. Regrets under the soil, thirst
Made the plains' eyes well with water

7. Each branch in the earth grows as a symbol
Of the wearing away of the slender form

8. And flowers are joy and delight
Of faces under dust, shining white

9. And it's as though time takes and gives
Souls of men in this taking and giving

10. Life exchanges taking and giving
And so souls are by this air riven

11. If it didn't take souls of the innocent
It would be miserly of even a slight breath

12. Seeking solace in every mournful soul
Helped by the sickness, not the cure

13. Reason bids to be patient but
Doesn't allot tranquility, only turmoil

14. The mournful may show patience but
A sore eye's patience towards grit - decayed

15. My silence grew so long that people thought it
Condolence, though it was not, when condoling

16. Grief has a lump that stops the weeping
From raising their voices in crying

17. However long the bereft live, after
Losing loved ones, it is length of torment

18. The pain of a wound when it grows cold and tells
Of its agonies in time is the worst

19. The blood of my heart and the flood of my tears
And my soul have composed an elegy of bereavement

20. She is a virgin of the angels of poetry
Daughters of inspiration and its whispering

21. She sent her tears generously, and what
Makes one shed tears like a virgin's tears