1. The fate of a young man estranged from his loved ones
Is sleepless eyes heavy with grief

2. And if longing tempts him
He resists with practiced patience

3. While his eyes relay everything
Except a heart calling out for news

4. Thus I'm punished when I left a people
And donned the robes of sorrow

5. Wellsprings of wisdom, clouds full of rain
And stars of a neighborhood, and breasts of a comrade

6. They shunned me though my heart was with them
I was absent yet my love for them remained

7. And had I not been so unlucky they would not have left me
But stayed between my eyelids and pupils

8. So speak, while in a state of weakness and captivity
Seeking refuge from enemies in friends