1. My friends, how your natures have changed!
Reproach in you is strange, and strange your whims.

2. Your blame has pained me, though if you knew,
I'd be helpless to make response or excuse.

3. You have your reasons that made you speak out,
And pardonable is what you heard and deemed right.

4. Grant you are correct and I'm at fault,
Is your patience and pardon beyond that so slight?

5. Yes, I'm guilty, to you repentant I came,
Like Ma'iz, repenting the sinful deed he claimed.

6. Never have I been pleased with betrayal,
Far from me, by God, thoughts of that I'm contained.

7. Between my heart and sleep ruin lies,
And between my lids and rest vast is the divide.

8. If my love for the abode and settlement you decried,
By allusion and metaphor you I deride.

9. Leave me be, and the slanderer, for I am present,
My voice raised, and my face forward and evident,

10. Elders will remember events that to us were sent,
Outliving us, elders and women reliant.

11. In your life, don't listen to envious chiding
Making claims between us, and with us contending.

12. None attracted my gaze but your face so inviting,
None possessed my heart but your love comprehending.

13. I will hide this blame, fearing the gloat of the spiteful,
Feigning to you I'm pleased, victorious and insightful.

14. Among you are enviers, between us mere trifles,
Events never ending, uncertainties stifling.

15. Deceiving their war, I befriend and bewilder,
Vanquishing them, by turns, as contender and builder.