1. Lightning flashed from your abode, and the night was jet-black,
Ripping through its darkness as the hail was ripped apart.

2. So stir in me a yearning like the breeze stirring flowers,
And remind me of a time like the wafting of moisture.

3. The days have changed until you loved me,
For in the breast of every friend lies rancor.

4. O you in whom I spend my evenings sorrowful and mornings joyful,
Did you intend to spend evenings betraying or morn to deceive?

5. Your tenderness in a soul that melts and an eye that sheds
Tears of sorrow and throbs with sadness.

6. Of what has folded my heart in sadness is that
I see union flourishing while I have no roses.

7. I did not know your covenant would fail
Or that you had apostatized from faithfulness.

8. Until anguish from your rejection burned me,
Scorching my entrails with its heat.

9. Tell me, has your loyalty been forgiving
As ruins are forgiven, or has it been buried?

10. My ransom! Was not between us a system,
As pearls are systematically strung?

11. Whenever a slanderer walked with gossip,
I would redouble friendliness in spite of him.

12. So why has that covenant been altered?
No longer a bond but an obstacle to union.

13. Gently, do not call your friend absent
Lest his limbs fray from the vileness of estrangement.

14. Remember ties that yesterday were binding
And today have become unravelled.

15. Cruel one! My heart cannot relinquish passion
And where can I go when desolation fills it?

16. I wonder - and suspicions abound -
Was this estrangement jest or earnest?

17. The feast day passed without my eyes delighting
In a glance from you, so its day was jet-black.

18. Did those who slander obliterate between us
The path of approval, or was there always a barrier?

19. When will the slanderers weep from remoteness between us
And fulfil for me what you promised?

20. You blamed though there was no fault, withdrew though no consent,
Departed though no meeting, and betrayed though no pact.

21. Is this the reward for passion? If you are fair,
Does not love have rights? Do not vows have force?

22. You jest, though I am earnest; yet earnestness
Is worthless without resolution to match.

23. Let my soul forfeit its life if it forfeits
Its passion, for if my soul goes, passion remains.

24. Peace be upon you so long as a branch is verdant,
Dew drips, lightning flashes, and thunder peals!