1. Whenever a breeze blew from the heights
Passion stirred in the arid wilderness

2. If reproach could change fate
I would have reproached you abundantly

3. We are in a cheerless town
Seeing naught in the sky but clouds

4. Its stars hidden in its gloom
While your brother doom looms on the horizon

5. No gardens here, nor nightingales
Only crows we hear cawing

6. Wandering among the sand dunes
Towards houses like domed tombs

7. Naught we see in winter but frost
Naught we see in spring but dust

8. My soul yearns for nights now past
When the pact of joy was sweet

9. Dawn has broken after endless dark
I know not when light will draw near

10. O brother beloved, what keeps you from me
When fate assails me like a foe

11. If aloofness is your choice
I must accept estrangement from a friend

12. Recall me, for none forget like you
When you recite this poem there