1. Should the heart find peace,
And tears dry in the eyes,

2. And the body rest in life,
And illness heal in the chest,

3. And the soul settle in passion,
And fire quench in the heart -

4. Why the long torment,
And the short life to endure it?

5. I'm tired of time's games -
What it's brought and prepared,

6. Lies that entice
Forbidden joys, welcomed by the mind,

7. Which tends to the lies, swallowing them.
I hoped for recovery, waiting for it,

8. If I postpone it, it gets delayed.
Youth is a garment -

9. If torn, it cannot be mended.
Resolve is a sword - unless it rusts

10. It must keep striking.
Had I sought greatness

11. I'd not be content to tread with slippers.
But I saw contentment in a life

12. That comforts the heart and brings joy.
I lost this and that, and went

13. Seeking an obscure goal.
The soul seeks only what is near -

14. Be it complete or fragmented.
It battles me day after day

15. And death assigns it repeated blows
The secret in attaining what you seek

16. In life is simply to dare.
I fled to the night from what I saw

17. The night too fled from what it saw!
When darkness engulfed me

18. I found the moon lighting me.
The most miserable creature is one

19. For whom darkness is refuge.
Reviewing the dreams of life

20. And the cities I never knew,
He came close - some drink

21. Leaves its drinker more thirsty.
O Lord of the universe, erase part of Your name -

22. Though Your name cannot be read.
Turn a blind eye to a sinner, if Your light saw him,

23. He'd nearly be blinded by the light.
Dazzled by the light, one commits no sin,

24. Never erring in life.
I absolved myself lest I stray -

25. But who do I have to absolve me?
I loved my life no matter how

26. Swiftly vanishing - sluggish in sight.
A worry contends my peace

27. And misery sees the best as worst.
Events made me shun my life -

28. So I released it, exonerated.
Never did I spend a day laughing -

29. For I befriended you, oh sly time.
I've made silence my friend -

30. For the repeatable is the limited.