1. I think of you, light of my eyes,
And ask about you, my heart, all the time.

2. And I conceal in my chest a love
That has taken hold of me completely.

3. You have impacted the course of my life—
If only you would impact me with love!

4. If only you knew the extent of my passion,
And my longing for you, so you may save me

5. When the nights grow long and dreary,
I incline toward the maze of assumptions.

6. Sorrow hands me over to the struggle of passion
In which I battle waves of sighing.

7. My dear, look upon me with a
Merciful heart made of kindness and tenderness.

8. Do not deny me without a sin I have committed—
If I have sinned, then punish me.

9. I sanctify in you manners of agony
And beauty shaped from the water of smoothness.

10. If not for love, no singer would sing
Nor would joy resound on the branches.

11. Nor would our talents flow with poetry
Whose fragrance wafts of jasmine.

12. I live love no matter how much I have tasted of it
For love is the lamp of certainty.

13. And I do not despair no matter how much
The days or the years have let me down.