1. I have been wounded by you in ways no water can heal,
And your abandonment of me became a festering disease.

2. It would have sufficed, had you decided
To shun me with a gesture - that would have been enough.

3. Yet I have not forgotten who commanded this
Of the talebearers, though my mouth holds water.

4. I kept on hearing until I became like one
Whose time had come while people still lived.

5. Once I had a name, but now I am known
By the torments I endure in loving you.