1. Ask the pale moon
And ask the dewy flower

2. And ask the wandering star
And ask the cautious sun

3. And ask the faded light
Fearful, having no abode

4. And ask the river, troubled
Each of its waves stumbling

5. And ask love after
The bow and chord have passed it by

6. And ask beauty humble
After it was lost or commanded

7. Ask them about the one
Who made the soul and stone tremble

8. How destruction took him suddenly
Departing and fleeing

9. Could his only sin
Be that he was a poet of poetry?

10. That he ignited his intimacy
In gatherings of night talk

11. That he sang the melody of sorrow
That he chased away boredom

12. That he created wishes
As he created images

13. That he flirted with passion
And passion is full of danger

14. That he saved people
From evils and from embers

15. That he thanked prohibition
While he was drunk from worry

16. That he made the land green
When the trees bellowed

17. That he produced the harvest
In the toil of bees and humans

18. That he forged his poetry
From tears and from thought

19. That he brought happily
What was sublime and what was rare

20. That he was a remedy
Above medicine and laboratory

21. That he always lived
Laughing, defeating gloom

22. That he was a flame
Of intelligence and how he dazzled

23. No authenticity missed him
If inspiration escaped him

24. My friend, how much bloom
From my loyalty and pride

25. Mourning you is bitter and its impact
Is the impact of a mountain if it exploded

26. What vengeance for a lover
Who missed love if he sought vengeance

27. It's not my wrath or my pain
It's not my tears that poured down

28. It's not my asceticism in my present
After losing what crossed over

29. It's not my ridicule of a world
That in its ignorance was victorious

30. It's not this or anything else
Of my rubble that scattered

31. From my heart that fell
Into a hell of strangers

32. From my soul's revolt
When my worries caught fire

33. For the one who restores wishes
Rising from the grave

34. If only I, oh my friend
Had not endured long wary absence

35. If only I had gone before you
If only you the immortal one

36. Were lamenting me, not I you
Our fortune is in the hands of fate

37. We're in a world where
The happiest people are those forgiven

38. We're all below a speck
Of mist or rain

39. We did not choose it but rather
Claimed expertise and expertise

40. I have nothing but a wine
Of wounds and of lessons