1. How long, for how long
Will I remain between estrangement and longing?

2. Whether it is aloofness or separation
What an ordeal between these two!

3. I have two opponents
In dire straits, nay double dire straits

4. I know not what the reason was
That existed between them and me

5. They have accompanied me since I was created
As one who demands a debt from me

6. Then my state persisted
With the continuity of those two states

7. And they dragged me forcibly, I have not stopped
My heart being their prisoner and my eye

8. And the human is frightened
Always by those two regrets

9. Before completing sixty
He tastes the flavor of the two separations