1. I call upon you, O heart, since they departed,
Yet why should I call when you do not hear?

2. Did you not submit me to passion’s rule?
Without passion, I'd never so submit.

3. Did you not obey it in its love?
To it was I obedient, even more obedient.

4. Did I not entrust you with my ribs?
And were not its songs your ribs?

5. Are you not the house of my life? What else
After it could my soul covet?

6. I thought you would come back to me,
So why, O heart, do you not return?

7. By Him in Whose hand are the hearts,
When I speak His name, you weep,

8. And the thought of Him quickens within me,
At the thought of Him, my tears flow fast.

9. The beloveds have left me after Him,
If they describe them, I panic.

10. I have grown thin, as though from His waist,
Yet beyond Him I suffer.

11. They suppose me a phantom of dream's form
Were it not for pillow and bed.

12. O gazelle, how did you roam the wilderness?
You used to graze among the wild shrubs.

13. O moon, how did you rise in my heart?
You used to rise on its horizons.

14. Sorrow has lodged in my heart's place,
If it returns, there'll be no room.