1. When will the longing lover find mercy, exhausted as he is?
Separation has increased his weakness and frailty.

2. My love, he has departed, defeating me, though I had no hope
Of his return, for my love follows the zebras.

3. He left willfully, taking my life with him,
Leaving me concealed in intense sorrow as a hostage.

4. He knows I am devoted in my love for him.
Seeing him is my remedy, though he assumed wrongly.

5. His love for me has faded unlike a loyal friend
I will never forget him, even if I perish.

6. Because if he is loyal or disloyal to me
It would be wrong for my heart to be unfaithful.

7. Oh, if not for you I would not stay up nightly
Loving you, waiting for my burial.