1. Oh night, if only you knew what I endure
A conscience burning within your folds

2. And if your eyes glistened with tears of mercy
Even if the springs in your eyelids ran dry

3. I feel, though what was lost is lost, that I
Am drowning while you're the receding shore

4. And that I call to unresponsive rock
And swim against the tide and stubborn tide

5. Did you ever think what sorrow wraps round me
And from what wound do verses draw their blood?

6. I come back home and its silence sobs
Into my face, even the benches weep

7. And asks me of our joy and chatter
Is it a season gone by or soon returning?

8. Oh night, your silence fills me with suspicion
What then can your purpose be?

9. I call to you from a heart frayed by doubt
A sharp blade of suspicion, cold

10. And like you know - a heart where sensations spill
If deprived of evidence to make their proof

11. When the night envelops me, doubling my loneliness
I feel what the hunted feels

12. And dreams chase my face, their shadows stalk me
So I seek escape in pleasures

13. Yet feel ascetic in the midst of pleasure
And the earth sways under me and I see

14. No refuge or arm to lean on
I ask myself: what can her silence mean?

15. And scenes play out in my mind
The meanings of silence seem many

16. And which weighs most varies
For if it were just displeasure and disdain

17. The cushions would not disown me so long
But it is an ominous silence, foreboding

18. Signs of betrayal and plots underneath
Could it be you've made my dreams a passage

19. And my weakness a shield against adversity
And no role left for me now that

20. A branch has stiffened and an arm strengthened?!
Do you forget me? Still disbelief

21. Though I know your heart to be a denier
Yes, our days had specks that flawed them

22. And a schemer inserted and envier fanned
But I did not give you all of my life

23. To reap from your world what I am reaping