1. I returned to myself with my thoughts, hoping
It would leave what had deceived and humiliated it

2. So I said: Oh self, what would I have taken
From the earth if I owned all of it

3. Is it not just satiety after hunger
Or a gift that is my time to fulfill it

4. And a period of time that does not let go the bitterness of what has passed
Upon me from the days except diminishing them

5. I see you have a self that seeks to dignify it
And you do not dignify the self until you humiliate it