1. I saw you with tattered clothes,
So I said to myself, I have found a free man.

2. I came to you with high hopes pulling me,
For something, yet you did not accomplish that for me.

3. So I was like one carrying an empty waterskin,
Its drippings were not seen from its wetness.

4. Or like one wandering, following his hopes,
Until he saw mirages which he imagined as a sea.

5. So he continued to follow it and his condition worsened,
Until that wilderness became for him a grave.