1. Alas, everything desired by people
Is hateful to me, and my beloved is the beloved one.

2. How strange that his watcher is infatuated with him,
Yet I watch over that watcher.

3. What has distracted my body and delighted my eyes,
And taught my heart how it could melt for him,

4. Is a beloved whom I see as sweet every hour,
He attains intimacy with me and then eludes me.

5. Oh what a pity for me that I am a lion of the jungle,
Yet a wolf takes my prey from right under me!