1. The closest of what was in his days
Betrayed him, and time betrayed its confidant

2. Time did not heed his days
Nor did fate fear his authority

3. If you say who he was and describe him
Everything good described him

4. He died and after him people died
Gratitude did not make his kindness die

5. Noah’s lifetime was not his lifetime
Rather, the deluge flooded his ship

6. Turn your eyes away from this world and its people
If you do not see its humaneness in it

7. You kept the edges of sufficient wealth, everyone
Who saw them went back to their tunes

8. Its events have stripped it bare
And after that broke its branches

9. Oh his world, oh his world, how you are not
In your injustice, human to this human

10. The ability of an honorable man has declined
To the truth - his ability did not expand

11. If my eyes shed tears over a nightmare
My eyelids command to conceal

12. And I wish he had revealed his sorrows
So that disclosure carries his sorrows

13. And I was, in keeping my love for him
Like a believer hiding his faith

14. He who made time his garment
How then would he be surprised by its colors?