1. My heart is patient, though my tongue is mute,
My tears, with my heart's secrets, freely flow.

2. When I say, weeping has undone me, tears
Stream down my cheeks in overwhelming woe.

3. My eye it was that led my heart astray -
Indeed, my eye was blind, I did not know!

4. Passion called out, he willingly obeyed,
The herald of desire sang soft and low.

5. I'm weary of this spacious world - a tent
Pitched in the void, with pegs not driven home.

6. It is the rising sun, a pearl submerged,
Sweet perfume in a vial sealed and stowed.

7. I swore by God I loved her. But what oaths
Sworn by the oath-prone are not lies, I trow!

8. She did not pity me, though I complained -
No pity stirs in that beloved's abode.

9. I asked wise Jesus and the perfect sage -
Not equal are the wise man and the fool!

10. I said, "I cannot see you, yet can see -
As if I, Salim, were both blind and whole."