1. Afraid for my faith, I did not lend you my heart
Though you adorn yourself with necklaces bright and serene

2. It suffices that your neck is graced by your beauty
With fresh blossoms or necklaces of pearl

3. You dwell in my heart where you were created
So you are of my inner self and my sight

4. I love you for your color is my heart’s hue
And if dressed in any other hue than mine

5. Promise me and keep me waiting, and waiting is enough
That I see you and you see me, for that is connection

6. Consume not my heart with your hands
For the heart is between you and I

7. I heard her speak words in which
Were my nightingale’s return and my time drawing near

8. Oh you who speak as though it were estrangement
Casting it away with both hands to the hearer

9. As if the roe, softer than fresh date wine,
Yearned toward me with pleasant gift so gentle

10. I looked at you a look when we met
Both of us uneasy from estrangement and in between

11. As if I looked upon my heart’s blackness
Openly shown in the blackness of your eyes