1. My state amidst the arena of events, my state,
Why do you ask when it's time for asking?

2. Why do you wonder and ask when it's clear
What you see of my affliction and emaciation?

3. Am I to blame because I came down
What do I care for the processions of your beauty, O betrayer?

4. Or was good faith on my part a slip,
For which I was punished with the horrors of calamities?

5. I did not find any pardon from you, even if
My sin to you was in my infatuation with you.

6. I came to you with a heart
Purer than softly flowing brookwater.

7. But the All-Hearing turned His ear from me, denying
My hopes with a flash like a deceptive mirage.

8. I thought I had become the happiest lover,
Amused by your consent, kindness and union.

9. And I began to smile at the people, forgetting
The spying eye and its hurtful words.

10. I warbled a song that shook the cloaks
Of the branches with the melody of dawn toward you and the evenings.

11. It does not trouble the depressing silence in
The sweet paradise and peace of mind.

12. O allure of hopes! When they appeared
To the eye a sun, your love seemed about to set.

13. I bade it farewell with the blood of my eyelids and after it
My eyes endured many sleepless nights.

14. And certainty came to me after doubt
Stirred up turmoil in my heart.

15. And I saw how I was deceived about you, and how often
The thirsty are deceived by mirages.

16. So I returned to the thirst that was killing me
After separation and the loss of hopes.

17. And of wonders is that I come to reproach you!
Do you listen for a moment to my words?

18. It is a death that befell a heart that had
Forgotten its love for you when it saw you.

19. I have nothing left of the love that is gone, so
Why do I unfold its pages? What do I have?

20. For I have folded its book in your hands
And buried my passions and fantasies in it.