1. Do not say wait, for the time of waiting is past
Not everyone who is in love has wisdom

2. For two years I did not visit her abode
Yet I love her, though I was warned against loving her

3. The Almighty King has forbidden me from meeting her
Without her we fear familiarity and death

4. There is no good in a love that is lost
Nor in a lover who cannot be united

5. Oh my liver, I am known for my love of her
Yet between us there has not been a moment of intimacy

6. How strange, I conceal my love for her
Yet it has spread until because of her the paths are cut off