1. You hold a meaning, of meanings, remote
From intentions of minds and thoughts

2. It's a secret to what I endure in loving you
Of my agony, passion, and fire

3. Do you know it? I'm not sure
Yet I see it's not comprehensible

4. I've torn away any veil about it
Woven by the fingers of fate

5. And rallied thoughts that forgot
To fade into the storm of passion

6. And imagined everything about the woman
As an enigma swirling with secrets

7. And here I am, after my release
In your wilderness, shackled in my chains

8. I feel the devil laughing in your soul
At me, in my confusion and disorder

9. You are what you are, a paradise like hell
Where believers are like disbelievers

10. Be as proud as you wish, and burn with love
For another, and go with the tide

11. I neither hope for you, nor fear you
But it's my blood, and my inferno

12. And my deprived youth, and burning desire
That passes with it, with no peace

13. And my pretentious life, its dreams spellbound
Cloaked by night and day

14. Becomes no more than a stage for snakes
Of illusion, feeding their venom to my thoughts

15. So attract it to your life for a while
To revive what you burned of my flowers

16. And immortalize my days through your being
In the world of love, through my poetry

17. And return my dawn to me, for I'm weary
Of my silence, darkness, and waiting

18. And if you insist on rejection
It would be a sin even to despise me

19. You are what you are, my judgement is blind to you
And my mind is threatened with ruin

20. Our love was never voluntary for my heart
Nor was it my choice

21. I have for you a yearning that smolders the soul
And for me you have lasting excuses

22. Oh my regret, if my life passes
While my certainty in you is denied