1. O you who broke pledges and betrayed,
This was not how the covenant of lovers used to be.

2. Your abandonment, aloofness, and turning away
Did not remain in my heart a single day of loyalty.

3. If other misfortunes besides your abandonment had befallen me,
And I saw in it that which horrifies and subdues,

4. I would complain of my anguish over you like
A fire, no, burning fires.

5. I made peace between my pillow and my eyes
When I saw you turning away, angry.

6. What if the days took for us
One day of terrible separation as security?

7. It would not be a day of separation and anguish
From the bow of his frowning eyebrows an arrow.

8. By God, your phantom visited me,
Stirred up sorrows and excited griefs.

9. I embraced from it what healed my sickness,
As if I had embraced you awake.