1. Time is all estrangement
And promise is all delay

2. And I'm suspended in suffering
With neither despair nor union

3. So be however you wish
For I am neither harsh nor gentle

4. And I do not wonder at my deprivation
While you are the origin of tenderness

5. Your specter passed gently by
While without you is the sand

6. So from yearning no affliction befell me
Where then is the truth and the jest?

7. My joy with you and grief
Are conditions I do not lack

8. So my sweetness with you is bitter
And my bitterness with you is sweet