1. You are impatient with me, while I am patient,
And you shun me, while I do not shun.

2. You harbor malice towards me in love,
While you know full well what I harbor.

3. If you are nonchalant in your aloofness,
I am nonchalant in my attachment.

4. When night lets down the veil of darkness,
My tears flow with what I conceal.

5. So I have many a sigh in my heart,
Suppressed, and many a teardrop shed.

6. No tears have flowed from my eyelids for you,
But oceans have flowed within.

7. I see anguish met with anguish,
Endless nights that never shorten.

8. When longing toys with me,
All I can do is call your name, O Ja'far!

9. I feel such longing that it overwhelms me,
And I swoon, unaware.

10. So I complain of longing, what you know,
And even more, what you do not know.

11. I see my wristlet has abandoned my seal-ring,
So the wristlet cannot reach the seal.

12. My sickness has a wellspring,
But no source.

13. Of all my agonies, the greatest
Is your wariness, other than what you are wary of.

14. If you are deluded by passion’s matter,
This cannot be denied one like you.

15. O you who dyed my eyelids the deepest black,
Nay, the deepest black itself you dyed.

16. Sleep is forbidden to you, my master,
For how can one who is sleepless sleep?