1. Do you live in the sweetest summit with the wine of eternities
Or in my thoughts and musings?

2. In the bleak oasis of confused visions
Do you wander or in my throbbing and sight?

3. You roam my soul a strange spirit in your palm
Remnants of withered flowers from my ruins

4. And you flow in my illusion a wandering mirage
Whispered by murmurs, the tunes of my meadows

5. And your voice in the horizons of my mind as if
An echo of a slaughtered sigh in the throats

6. If I fancied by the shore, the shore sung amusement
At the wave, the wave laughed mockingly

7. And if the waves sang, their singing became
The wailing of orphans or the weeping of free women

8. And if their shells flashed, their flash was
The blaze of a glowing ember boiling in my eyes

9. And if the breezes passed by, I thought them
A touch of breaths in the midst of the flaring fires

10. And if drowsiness fluttered my eyelids from anguish
I saw a gaping wound in my eyelids

11. And if the ramblings of my misery distracted me
I pretended until I did not wake up to my revelry

12. And if desires tempted my heart I imagined for it
A ragged country in the grip of a butcher

13. And if I said that life is a laughing joy
And I went towards people to the presses

14. And I sipped my cup while my friends were
A bouquet of flowers nourished by pouring hands

15. And I left the people’s world and my heart shook
Yearning for the world of early joys

16. And the clamor of joy melted away from my hearing
And the spirits wavered around the night guards

17. And the ghosts mumbled reciting to the close ones
The talks of nights and bygone centuries

18. And I shed tears like a bird whose nest collapsed
And whose brood was burned by the blaze of passions

19. And I blamed the star of the horizon while it was chained
A captive in the grip of the revolving fate

20. I knocked on the night while it was my shelter
And veiled the star while it was my pillar

21. And I startled my dreams and forgot myself the next day
And increased the darkness with my present

22. And I cast down in my silence the defeat of pillars
And melted a talisman in my eyelid with a sorcerer

23. So I fell silent while the world turns on the mill
Of thought and worry residing in my mind

24. My friends ask me while my hearing is winged
Whispered by the shadows the murmur of consciences

25. And in my eyelashes is the tear of a stranger and in my mouth
Reproach to the heart of the harsh and the stumbling

26. And my breast is full of pleading sighs
And the pockets of my heart are full of wandering zephyrs

27. As if you are in my eyes arrows and in my blood
Stones and in my hearing the wailing of storms

28. You have filled all of my existence and I
Who lives on dreams, the life of a gambler

29. So my dreams in my passion are not real
And I am not patient from my anguish a day

30. Nor are you, O memory of the beloved, kind
To a wounded heart adventuring in distresses

31. As if you inspired affliction upon me
And taught the love of injustice from the soul of Hagar

32. I thought you were a myth in the nearness of the beloved
Spun by the drunk madly in love

33. And in his distance, alas, from the fire of his distance
I drank, O memory, the undiluted wine

34. And there was no myth in the dreams of my life
Except for my hope in the taverns of destinies

35. I wish the cutters of death would lead my procession
To my narrow grave between the tombs

36. For my joy in life, and it is a poem
Irregular in meter, is not for a poet

37. And whoever cheered from his life the oasis of purpose
Has no memory for the desert of life