1. Time has worn me out with sighs,
And love has increased my sorrows.

2. My beloved's love
Has become intimate company for my heart.

3. My passion has immersed my soul,
It has become the very soul of my soul.

4. After having led me astray
From a life of devotion and spiritual rigor,

5. I can no longer wake up for prayers
Nor can I study consistently.

6. My reason has flown away,
I cannot sense even a trace of it.

7. The glance of my eye is to blame—
Oh glance! You have been blinded.

8. If only you had knocked before gazing
At the shining sun.

9. I said: O light of my eyes!
You have stolen my reason stealthily.

10. So give me back my life,
Biting with your teeth and licking.

11. He could not resist
Until he was intimate with me and then turned away.

12. My face turned black because of him
Until it was transformed with misery.

13. But in this he does nothing more
Than insult me morning and evening.

14. I said: woe is me! Who can forget
One who does the likes of this?

15. Time knows only how
To insult and belittle me.

16. I have not seen a love
With a harder heart and crueler.