1. To my friend in his worlds
Between towering research and journeys

2. I pour from my agony what overflows my words
Even if hidden in my innermost thoughts

3. The sorrows of life gathered and did not cease
Waging war on me and making me prefer

4. If I live in gardens full of wonders
My heart is tortured by fire

5. A moving company lost my library
Oh moving company, you are eternally disgraced

6. The loss of income was my support
As if time was set on impoverishing me

7. The worries lost a blessing that was my health
So I did not benefit from residences or neighbors

8. And my debt became a companion that does not leave me
And had it bid farewell or warned me

9. And when I tried to sell all I owned
My hands failed me just as they lost my home

10. I am punished though I committed no sin except
My kindness as if that were my great wrong

11. And strangely when sorrow submerges me
I beat it like a swimmer in a current

12. I do not know if my heart is insane in its optimism
Or if it does not know its state, or if it is mocking me

13. My life has grown accustomed to grief so it became
Part of me and grief lengthened my life

14. For whom is the sweetest of my times
And what is my life, who cares for my aging?

15. The watcher was determined to erase my thoughts
What I first cultivated with my thoughts

16. Betraying homelands, the gravest of them,
Is barring truth or exhausting the free

17. And leaving me to suffer in my burning
Is a disgrace on the generation, not my sin or shame