1. My blossoming garden is now barren,
My leafy trees are now stripped bare,

2. A gate to heaven I've bid farewell,
Since I saw death has shut it tight.

3. May your grave not be far, O mother mine,
Far from your grave, how devastated I'd be!

4. Death I always feared has come true,
Taking you away, the truth revealed.

5. Thoughts of your frail form trouble me,
As I lay down recalling your agony.

6. You bore the burden of illness and pain
In a body weaker than gossamer thin.

7. O mother, how endless is the sorrow
That renews my deep anguish within!

8. How many moans poured into my ear
Leaving within my heart a blaze seared.

9. Had I known your doubts, I'd have been first
To loose my arrows straight into your heart.

10. I say this as my breath ascends
Within my chest, heavy as lead.

11. O Death, how can I escape your grip
When you stare fixedly with evil grin?

12. Who can avoid seeing the darkness
That I've lodged in this lightless tomb?

13. How the earth shrinks in her eyes,
As I place her in a narrow, drear room.

14. O darling, I've been severed from you,
Holding you in soil, not in arms that care.

15. Why did you make me love you so,
When I knew you were soon to go?

16. The soil weeps where you now lay,
Its tears like pearls in bright array.

17. No blossom smiles from where you sleep,
No radiant flower for one who weep.