1. They say to me, had he been with the sand, he would not have died
Gray hair and baldness belie what is said

2. And had I entrusted him to the sun, death would have risen
To it, its eye and its messenger

3. And I would have been like the bones of foreigners that surrounded him
With its edges until its leanness narrowed

4. When youth equalized him and the earth's expanse neared
My sins, and the plain was strewn with litter

5. We lowered him in clothes to the bottom of a deep abyss
Stronger than what the grave gathered in its circumference