1. You've seen my secret and my declaration
So go about your business, ignorance does not suit me

2. She whom I sought, aiming for her affection
Granted consent and obeyed after rebellion

3. Sufficient for me is what time's days have taught as trials
With its two new cups, fate pressed me to drink

4. The world revealed her faults and ratified them
With what time reclaimed of what it had given me

5. You may see me living the life of a recluse
Awaiting fate's promise, wandering without a home

6. For time's companion mixes for me
The cup of passion and revives me with basil

7. I ask, was I born to feel this new passion?
For as a child, desire walked with my body

8. Days of playfulness and mischief
While mind and sorrows race within me

9. I don't forsake the ruins or their whiteness
Nor do I, in wakefulness, feel lonely

10. On a night when barely a star kept vigil
I conversed with it using the stream's murmur

11. When it obeys the heaviness of its rider
Like a palm branch swaying beneath its clusters

12. As if, after dawn had taken it
The twisting paths of delight had walked with it

13. It swayed as softly as a gliding serpent
Leaving only the trace of hips and legs

14. I've known times in life when I was sated
With the pleasures of youth that once defied me

15. Its nights came to me with a visiting belle
Whose image fate introduced that left me confounded

16. She persisted in refusing while unaware
Of a slumbering man whom she left awake

17. So now I've grown short as time retracted its hand
And the nights parted from me after obedience

18. Far from my eyes to shed their tears
Over deserted passion or distant neighbor

19. I did not reserve complaint for an event
Until time exposed my secrets and confused me

20. Forward we drift with our saddlebags
Like ghosts in the shadows of darkness

21. As if her escape as dawn takes her
Is an arrow's release from fate's reckoning

22. We confide to the night our worries' secrets
When drowsiness prevails over the chatting companion

23. She craves one disheveled, if only he could overtake her
To wander from ignoramus to ignoramus

24. Fate extinguished it by enshrouding the night
Leaving it lost in the night's captivity

25. Dawn churned within it, then demolished it
And the radiant day's face turned away

26. Gliding in the night, heedless of his anxieties
As if riding on the head of a serpent

27. He has not sheathed the sword since first strapping it
Except to draw it on foe after foe