1. O you who was tender in his love
My body became delicate like a speck of dust

2. You shunned me after you had
Shunned me before with estrangement

3. And I feared my lips would reveal
What would disclose traces of the fever of my lips

4. Be at ease, for time has interceded
Its events in you for ages

5. Alas! That I express in poetry what
The hand of poetry has expressed of you