1. How long this coquetry and flirtation
You healed while my enemies envied me

2. I ponder you all night in my thoughts
I build then demolish then build again

3. Maybe I was wrong and I don’t know
So tell me what you’ve heard about me

4. My desire, had I hidden you my beloved
In place of the light in my eye and eyelid

5. And in you I drank the wine of love undiluted
So if you see me drunk then don’t blame me

6. You see me infatuated with passion and fervor
And you know of me yet pretend with “what about me?”

7. And I recognize my enemies in you for certain
And I feign ignorance about them as if I don't

8. And I have noble ethics in love
So ask whoever you wish about me and test me

9. And wherever loyalty exists in the world
There if you ask about me you’ll find me

10. My beloved who shall I be a lover to
And reward me with loyalty weight for weight

11. And I don’t see as lowly with passion
One who doesn’t look at me, how long this coquetry and flirtation