1. The gray hair is wise while youth is rash
Prudence is peace while temptation is lavish

2. Youth has passed revealing what was unexpected
And gray hair came bringing what cannot be averted

3. Both are inevitable for he who survived
The onslaught of time demanding a toll

4. Man is anxious of the blows of fate
Yet slack regarding what he wishes to attain

5. Fate may show you favor
Granting what you wished and feared

6. I look upon things and I ponder
Flaws and consequences are laid bare

7. Gray hair seduced me with this while persisting
To seduce the reckless with its reason and rebukes

8. How strange my flaws increase my guidance
And anger when another was unjust with me

9. I wasted my youth a rain shower and palms
Quenching and a shower of tears poured forth

10. I remain times now past and covenants
Like foliage whose branches droop

11. Days that make me forget adversity and the memory
Of youth, prime and first blush