1. O my ribs burning in depression
O my tears prepare to pour out

2. The wounds of passion bleed tears
My longing is content in adversity

3. And so water only flows
With the heat of blazing branches

4. And my afflictions struck me three times
With sleeplessness, agony, and lamentation

5. Sorrow after a scream, and wailing
From a rider, driver, and raven

6. So my youth passed amid complaining
Rejection, abandonment, and rebuke

7. And my awareness of my old age shows me
A number whose betrayal I do not deserve

8. My hair turned gray but my right hand is unblemished
At the age of forty in my reckoning

9. And the lovely one saw my grey hair and said
What did it gain you, so I said, love of the lovely one

10. My passion captured my youth until
The dawn of old age entered the night of youth