1. My heart has grown accustomed to longing's pain
No more does any sorrow cause it grief

2. We comfort each other when we speak of them:
God decreed this distance! How can we prevent it?

3. When I travel, their memory keeps me company
Yearning lets me hear those I cannot hear

4. And if I pass by a place where we once met
Nostalgia overwhelms me and constricts my ribs

5. Who will travel away?! Farewell bewilders us
Will I bid my soul farewell or bid him farewell?

6. Without him the world seems narrow, and alas
For the time when union expanded it

7. If in my heart I hide what I endure
Of longing, can my tears be hidden as well?

8. I left him in God's safekeeping to protect him
My yearning will reunite me with him again