1. My dearest beloved
My beginnings and my ends

2. My conquest and my defeat
My most precious victories

3. My journeys to the past
My voyages to the future

4. For my eyes (Queen Balqis)
My victories and my banners

5. My ruins and my wings
My moons and my clouds

6. For her, my farewell waving
For her, my nocturnal longings

7. I rise and she before me
I'm abroad and she my mirror

8. My soul ends with her
And my being begins with her

9. I sing and she my breath
I'm silent and she my listening

10. I thirst and she my burning
I sip and she my cups

11. I die and her love is my death
I live and she is my tragedy

12. She quenches me with passion and love
And I thirst more, give me drink

13. She recounts me as her habit
And I follow her habits

14. And I spin from her winds
My oars and my anchors

15. I ask: where is my mistress?
I am in her and carry her

16. On my sighs' shoulders
On my fervent fervent longings

17. On the atoms of my atoms
And I melt as she carries me

18. Growing in my wounds
And I ask: where do I find her?

19. Boiling in my youthfulness
And she gazes from my sorrowful whisper

20. And from my times' sorrows
And from my silence like a statue

21. My sculptor formed my face
And she appears from my poetry's fragrance

22. And from my sweet laughs
And from my neighbors' glances

23. And from my neighbors' gestures
And from my ancestors' vigils

24. And from my grandmothers' delusions
And from my children's dreams

25. And from my dead's ghosts
Behind the chatting horizon

26. Yearning for the promised tomorrow
That passes before it comes