1. The affliction has become severe and the hands of longing play with me
I am wasted from intense sorrows and distress

2. And I became absent from companions and pain
Yet I did not become absent from remembering my beloved

3. May my soul ransom you, yet that is little
O you who plotted my demise

4. O you who abandoned me without sin or cause
Except for what the slanderer conveyed of lies

5. You have scorned me, O my bliss
In ways that even if my enemy had done them, he would have pitied me

6. If shedding my blood pleases you my master
Then do it, for anything else you desire pains me

7. Passion and anguish have incinerated me
Copious tears have drowned me

8. So look upon a heart forged from flames
Held in a body forged from embers

9. Have a little mercy on my heart that you torture
And how much upon embers, O my torment, you toss it

10. You commanded my eyelids to sleep but I did not sleep
The stars tired me with how I watched them

11. I stay up all night in the love of one sleeping
As if I were an observer of the stars

12. You rest from my sleeplessness and my toil
So suspicion has become a kind of doubt to me

13. O perfect excellence that the darkness of the tent has revealed to me
O you who are above any deficiency or burden

14. In your judgments, O my adversary and my judge
Is it that your love leads me to ruin?

15. With your charm
And your beauty's polish

16. May your mercy lift up my soul from malady
Is not reviving it one of the greatest acts of kindness?

17. My heart was not created nor did it exist
Except to be struck by arrows from beautiful eyes

18. So excuse my advice, O my reproacher, and do not blame
For the arrow of blame does not pass through my ear

19. And avoid blame and contention
And leave my insides and the arrows

20. While you, my slayer with coldness and anger
Live in peace from the head of love, O my father