1. Stand with me, my friend, and ask
My Master to give me rest

2. I have avoided misfortunes
That do not leave my space

3. My promise and my wound are complicated
The devout are not wounded

4. My tears sleep in my estrangement
So my secret is exposed

5. My tears are like grains
Trickling from my eyelids

6. O patience, why have you departed
While I remain the wounded captive

7. O heart, why have you flown
Away from me when my branch is broken

8. My promise of loving you was true
So why have you abandoned me

9. O you who blame me, wish me well
In my attempt to recover

10. Stop blaming me, I spend my nights
And mornings in sorrow

11. My eyes recited their verses
But their meanings were not explained

12. I called him but if he were
Alive, I would not have needed to

13. Between my eyelids and the bone
Is the exposed pain of yearning

14. This, from my eyes, is a bird
And my eyelids swim in tears

15. The sparks of my worries flare
In the dark night of afflictions

16. And my heart is as if it were
A sinner, burning with remorse

17. If I tried to explain my torment
My closed one would not open

18. And so my breast refuses
From grief, to feel relief

19. O Lord, inspire a speaker
To speak good counsel clearly

20. Surely in the night of sorrow
Your kind resolve will prevail

21. Gabriel, Michael, be not heedless
Your black idol is overthrown

22. Gabriel, how long will you avoid
Your Lord’s door from which you fled

23. Gabriel, beware desires
In which you live exposed

24. Gabriel, repent of habits
In which you have strayed

25. Gabriel, strive with repentance
Shed tears that overflow

26. Gabriel, do good in secret
Or else you will be shamed

27. And know that death will
Surely come to you one day

28. How many like you, burdened,
Have struck their heads upon the rock

29. Its tentacles have fluttered over you
How many wounded beneath them

30. How much advice you have heard
From an earnest, wise counselor

31. Leave your distracting thoughts
And find rest

32. You ignored the rebuke of the warner
Because you refused to repent

33. Now what you tried to hide
Has become clear

34. And you have seen Hell’s fire
And its unquenchable evils

35. And the eternal bliss
Of the Lord that does not cease

36. You could have inherited it
The legacy of the blessed Prophet

37. And been saved from a fire
Lit by the sparks of your own evil

38. But you regretted only after
Your sun had set

39. And you began to cry out in grief
Oh woe to him who does not recover

40. If only I had restrained my passion
It would have been restrained, by your truth

41. But I relied on my respite
And life is a ruinous trap

42. So I was confused until
Deafness overtook me against counsel

43. And death came calling
At the door, your door is opened

44. If my endeavor had succeeded
I would be the happy brother of success

45. Oh my repentance, oh my misery
Oh my sorrow, if only I had repented

46. When I see among the people
The scales weighing my sins prevail

47. O Lord, accept my repentance
Before I am put to shame

48. On a day when You judge
And secrets become known

49. If the righteous are laid low
By the sound of Your mighty voice

50. What will be the state of one
Who does not leave his sins?

51. O Virgin Mary, the only one whose
Mother gave birth while a virgin

52. Did the Crucified One bring you
Anything but joy?

53. My neediness is rain, I am
Prostrate at Your door of generosity

54. How many enemies have become
Wounded by the edge of Your sword?

55. With it I will be supported
Without You, my hands cannot heal

56. And I will return free
Praising You in it and through it

57. And I will return alive, saying
The words of the expanded breast

58. You gave life to a dead one who was
Slaughtered in the tranquility of desire