1. Do not say, "Why do you weep?"
Do not ask, "What is your song's ache?"

2. I weep and sing for you -
Does my weeping hurt you?

3. Name me a flute if you wish,
Or a singer if you desire.

4. Sometimes I console you,
Other times I congratulate you.

5. For you are my jealous odes,
And from my heart, wishes.

6. I gratify art but how
Can you be pleased with me?

7. All that saddens you makes me weep,
Pains me and preoccupies me.

8. So listen if you want or leave me
To sing however you want.

9. Do not blame me if my heart weeps,
And I sing you my sorrows.

10. Do not ask me why I eluded you,
To the farthest corners.

11. Your nature and disposition.
Where the injustice falls apart

12. Like victims’ limbs.
And desolation looms

13. Like the eyelids of death.
And darkness flows in silence

14. Like the ghosts of sins.
And black stillness lurks

15. Like the honor of whores.
And I call you in my secrecy

16. And my bare dreams.
My friend on life’s path

17. In the caravan of life.
You are the soul of my spirit,

18. A soul filling my being.
Our life together unified us,

19. And death will unify us.
Our lives pass, and the afterlife

20. Comes after death.
We are two minds who have met

21. Despite the diaspora.
We are in the philosophy of art

22. Like an intimate prayer.
I am a cup of musical ecstasy

23. And tears of memories.
So drink the melody and leave

24. The tears of torment in the cup.
This is how my songs pour

25. As you wish, crying out.
My friend, lend me your ears

26. And take my sweetest tune.
From the dawn’s lips, I quench your thirst,

27. And jasmine wine.
From the fountain of art I water you,

28. And my spring never runs dry.
For you are my musical sighs,

29. And for me alone are my laments.
For you is the warbling of my art,

30. And for me my longing’s hunger.
Like the longing of a prisoner.

31. Where I meet you
In sad silence’s thought.

32. In the songs of yearning, in memories
And in dormant love.

33. In fantasies and in the complaint
Of feeble pining.