1. Drown sorrows in yellow coffee
And mix the light of water with the fire of comfort

2. Why are you deceived by its ancientness?
In baseness, nothing but yellow rakishness

3. Time continues to polish it with its hatedness
And adds to it more gentleness and serenity

4. Until there remains only its light
In baseness, and it moves away from the disgraces

5. And ignited in an eve from its embers
Like the ignition of Mars in the darkness

6. It descended like a poured ingot
Or a snake that crept from the sands

7. And it substituted from a sealed clay
An apple at the top of each vessel

8. Do not remind me of mornings, and give me
A cup of wine at every evening

9. How many nights has drowsiness busied
Two lovers who agreed to meet

10. They held an embrace all night long together
Their intestines stuck to each other's intestines

11. Until dawn rose and they separated
With sighing, regret and crying

12. Under the darkness we noted nothing
Except stars resembling the eyes of spies