1. You have possessed my heart yet I do not possess you, my home
I do not see you sharing this possession with me

2. So order it, my Master, to be gentle with me
For your slave has become tortured

3. Do you not see it burning with the fire of passion, scorching me
Unjustly while my eyes drown in a flood of tears

4. Your absence taught me estrangement, O unjust one, so if
The apparition afflicted me, sleep began to abandon me

5. By your eyes I swear, I have no madness for your love but
Illness, sleeplessness, obsessive thoughts and sadness

6. I have melted until my shirt has become heavy on me
And those who knew me have become unrecognizing of me

7. I held back my tears with all my strength yet they outpaced me
And my love and longing exposed me

8. And from my troubles, I have been tempted by one
Whose beauty has made even ascetics fall into temptation

9. I saw the youthfulness in his eyelids, his witchery,
So my heart was hunted - if only love had not existed

10. And if only my eyes had not seen his beauty
Then my demise was between witchcraft and youth

11. I became accustomed to the long sleeplessness, so if
The darkness had passed over my eyelids, I would not feel lonely

12. Or if his appearance resembled the rising full moon
Then at nightfall he would comfort me

13. I sacrifice myself for you, the one I complain to of
His harshness, knowing he will not have mercy on me

14. If you have no choice but to kill me without cause
Then gently take my soul from my body