1. Let time sit with me as long as it wants and let it stand up
Despondency in the face of calamities is not of my nature

2. Whenever time bares its fangs with disasters
I too bare the fangs of my lofty ambitions

3. How many excusers in time have I told
You should have kept short, you should not have blamed or rebuked

4. Others mislead the nights and go astray with them
While I remain in a state, blameless

5. The nights keep me company and I keep them company in turn
And I have never regretted that companionship

6. So say to those who blamed me for patience over heartache
From separation, intentionally, without dignity

7. Do not think that if you find me one day to be submissive
That I submit to the overwhelming misfortune

8. If you try hard to reconcile kindred ties
You will neither be kind to relatives nor compassionate to womb-relations

9. What fault is it of the branch if its roots have betrayed it
When the branch is rooted in glory and generosity?