1. Oh my soul, for how long will I suffer
And why does torment control me

2. Whenever I find respite from my agony
It heads towards me slowly and progresses

3. You, my soul, are the source of my misery
You are the embodiment of all affliction

4. You are an illusion in our bodies, how strange
That we feel this illusion as pain

5. My body no doubt is slave to my mind
My mind is slave to my longing heart

6. My heart is slave to feeling, and feeling
Is slave to my soul, and we all suffer

7. My soul, why do I dissolve in misery in you
My soul, why am I deprived of what I hope for

8. My soul, why does life seem like an evening
When light appears in its horizon, it darkens

9. When I cry over past nights
My soul and conscience recoil and conceal

10. And my hope alternates with despair, but
The pile of despair crumbles after a while

11. So in life I am between a marsh
Impossible or hopeless and gloomy

12. Sometimes I see life as evils
And other times I see life smiling

13. Confused soul, confused, I do not know
What will cure it, and by God, I do not know

14. You, my soul, are the source of my misery
Oh my soul, for how long will I suffer