1. So you have been absent from me intentionally, without return
As if you have loved to relieve my agony

2. I left you in the tender sunshine, warmed up
By its mercy in a slumber, what a slumber

3. And it spoke to me when I left you regretfully
To my work in a shy accent

4. In it the singsong of yesterday's love, the moaning of a lover
And from your evident weakness, the setbacks of my sorrow

5. I wish I had preferred your nearness that day
For long you have preferred my closeness and companionship

6. And I wish I had not deceived myself vainly
The healing of my medicine or my success with my trickery

7. And I asked about you the family and the neighborhood that
Saw us intimate, in bliss and love

8. So they called out and went searching as if they
Were lost regarding an important task, what a loss

9. And they returned to my despair multiplied
And they returned to my passion and confusion

10. How many times you have sung praise and contentment
And how many times my eyes and cheeks have kissed

11. And how long you have watched my return as if we were
Lovers who have not tolerated any separation

12. I have not known your heart except as melodies
And art for my hearing night after night

13. So who has changed the beautiful voice and who do you think
Has allowed my eyes to shed tears

14. It is time that has scattered people just as
The blows of a rock scatter the sea’s water

15. I have lost you my intimate beloved and so
One day I will lose a speck in the ocean

16. It is enough for me to call you once
And you would come while I have faltered in every call

17. And if you were a child for me I would not have stretched with me
More burning nor would I have claimed for my scorching

18. I have known you in the five years of my companionship
Chaste, decent, not blemished with any doubt

19. And how few people are like you in guidance
If they were I would not have longed for my estrangement

20. And if you were inarticulate you would not have been eloquent
With more than what you have left in my mind

21. It is forbidden that my silence after your dead muteness
So who will fulfil the debt before my death

22. It is forbidden when every laugh has inspired me
I have envied it like the inspiration of my tear

23. If this poetry is my soul then it is
Also part of you in the fold of my breath

24. And if you have not left a visible trace for the people
And if you have not left solace and bequest for me

25. It is enough for the people the hours of intimacy I have composed
And enough for an intimate who has gone are my tears and loneliness