1. I have tasted life, yet there is no companion
To console my worries, nor a friend

2. Who says to me, when she sees me
Stumble on my path to glory:

3. "Oh Lord, extinguish the lamp of my consciousness
So I may awake with clear-sighted vision

4. And silence the youth in my chest, for I
Wish to hear the truth from my heart"

5. Long has been my age in the dark
Lit by naught but the dark itself

6. As if the gloom were a torch in my heart
Fueled by life's misery

7. So flowers before my eyes
Are but memories of past love

8. Passing by in their charm
Withering like faded flowers

9. I spend my nights in solitude
Where my father wept his share before me

10. How many visited me there in tears
To see me praying in sorrow

11. I was raised, my regrets gnawing me
Wounding my sad heart and making it bleed

12. Every stranger rebelled against me
And when I grew up, even my family did

13. I see the night open its hall
To receive the sleeping eyelids

14. While my soul wanders in space
Fearing my wandering soul

15. So You, whose eyes smile
Enlighten me with Your smiling eyes

16. Come, and close my withering eyelids
With Your soft, gentle fingers

17. Come to me, for the birds have fallen silent
And night hangs over its nest

18. The farmer of those fields now sleeps
His harvest gathered by his sickle

19. How many kings, O night, weep
Before Your majesty, their thrones lost!

20. And how many wretches darkened by life
See but the gloom of their coffins in Your blackness

21. Come recite in my hearing
Songs of love in tongues of eternity

22. And take my memories to a world
Where my soul may worship in joy

23. For this life is the dregs of a cup
Poisoned for existence by the Accursed

24. So let me leave it to the insects
To suck up its remnants of decay

25. Come, for the minutes of my life
Pass by my mind like a caravan

26. And for the infinite tomorrow
I carry bags of fading hopes

27. If tomorrow You see the phantom dove
Pass by my withered cheek

28. Come lay kisses of loyalty
On the lips of the fading dead

29. And tomorrow when the years pass
Perplexed by Your soft cheek

30. Striping it of the luster of beauty
Leaving only the eternal luster of Your spirit

31. You will remember me resting my forehead
Against Your sleeping chest

32. And making You hear exquisite poetry
Like magic upon Your smiling pillow

33. So You who appeared to gladden my heart
In a desolate, putrid world

34. And lit in my gloomy night
Torches of Your love in my eyes

35. And said to my heart, "Be a lover!"
So it was, overflowing from my eyelids

36. Come to me, and touch my heart
Have no fear of my chronic wound