1. For your sake, I swear I'm sleepless
Bereft of all comfort, wretched, distressed,

2. And when I call on Patience to attend me,
My tears outstrip her, visiting each home.

3. My sighs lift blood up from my liver's depths
While eyelids drain it, and it's left outpoured.

4. My passion's nothing like the love I've known-
No precedent for this in what I was accustomed to.

5. It's like the quivering of a lance inside me when
A lightning flash lays bare the scene, or else some tryst appears.

6. I charge the north wind with my messages,
My sighs still hesitate between us two.

7. And if it blows across a poisoned land,
My lingering sighs will still be fanned ablaze.

8. Had I but known the suffering love would bring,
No pact between us would have come to pass.

9. What wise man would deny that being burned alive
In fires of love is true eternity? Here am I,