1. My love, though my abode grows distant from you
Is like my love when we were neighbors

2. Remaining steadfast, not changed by the times
That make infrequent our visits to one another

3. When I saw you, I said, “Reunion is a full moon”
Whenever the full moons are free of clouds

4. You doubted that I am patient and forbearing
How much forbearance can come from being patient?

5. I did not abandon you out of blame, but
Drinking wine had harmed me

6. Wine has no veil over it
With which to conceal me, so how can I be veiled?

7. Can I forget the bliss of living by your side
Like cheek made elegant with beauty marks?

8. And hours when playfulness roams
Through eyes’ orbits like the glint in flowers?

9. If today my body is far from you
My soul has no peace away from you

10. When distant, you were most precious to me
So how can it be now that you are my neighbor?