1. It's as if a guardian appointed by you
Watches over my thoughts,

2. While another watches over my eyes and tongue.
Since you left, my eyes have seen no sight

3. Except you, I say, have seen me.
Nor has any word slipped out from me

4. Except to you, I say, have heard me.
When the passionate ones are diverted from love

5. By drinking wine or listening to singers,
I find that which consoles me other than them—

6. It makes me yearn to be near you until I depart my place.
No notion crosses my mind secretly

7. Except to you, pulling at my reigns.
And though I've wearied of the talk of trusted friends,

8. I withhold my gaze and tongue from them.
It's not asceticism that consoles me from them,