1. I am truly you
This is my belief in you

2. So love from me is within me, not
Your turning away from yourselves

3. And I have concealed my love for you
If it were something that could be concealed

4. Alas no, by your lives
My love is more exalted and greater

5. I cry for you, and it is right for me
Even if what I cry were blood

6. Shall I restrain my tears in passion
For one dearer to me than you?

7. You are the dearest people, all of them
They have rights over me, and are most noble

8. What is with me? I failed and you betrayed
This while you are yourselves

9. No reproach after you upon the
Folk of enmity, and they are themselves

10. Woe unto you, O one whom I do not name
Who tyrannizes and treats unjustly

11. Who is for me except you when I complain
To him, he is kind and shows mercy

12. And who is he that kills me and
Cries over me and regrets?

13. I am dying from my longing for you
You live, while I am well