1. I wept alone in solitude
My sorrows dwelled in my heart

2. I knew his grave among the tombs
Like worries that know my place

3. Sorrow whose life became lamentation
And tears like collars not like necklaces

4. I'm Noah's son, his grave the mountain
Which could not protect him from the flood

5. Do you think in the abode of eternity I delayed?
Look as if you are with me, for soon you will see me

6. This life has killed me, so I wished
That by killing me it would give me life

7. And my heart says in you every elegy
Sorrow silences what my tongue would say

8. And if the heart calls out in you desperately
Its fervent call is met by my eyelids’ echo

9. My tongue is miserly with an expression, yet my mind
Said what the ears about you wished to hear

10. O time of a single color in harm
Where is your fickleness, O father of colors?

11. One comforted another about another
And asked and hid the comfort of others

12. So take aim, the path is set for one who aims
With your consolation, souls in bodies

13. They have become lines buried in the earth
While their graves above are like titles

14. You have shamed my certainty, and if you were enemies
It would not be shamed, but you are my brothers

15. The one who knew time and its people
If both are accumulated, two times

16. So I remained lost without a companion
And he remained existent without a time

17. I have of him a specter, if I sleep and remember him
From him in my waking state a second specter

18. I have not forgotten your era despite the distance
And forgetfulness diminishes man

19. My eye says how can I forget the memory of one
Who still resides in me more than a human?

20. You are free of life, while here I am
In its prison I have become the eye of the weak

21. The people of afflictions after you are my family, just as
The graves because of you are my homelands

22. My time no longer passes with harm
And when did it ever treat me kindly?

23. You were a veil between us
When you left I saw Him and He saw me

24. And I met what my patience could not withstand
Nor could the garden of my soul withstand the shock

25. I had no brothers who knew my affection but you two
You were not brothers, but fathers

26. And I stood on your day - should I not
On the day I hoarded you both stand?

27. After you I did not recognize faces, so everyone
Who had a face now has two faces

28. It is as if the one whose name complains to my heart
And the one whose beauty captivated me

29. And I heard what the comforter said, and he
Tempted me, though he claimed to forbid me

30. The eye of the mound and its hearing in his heart
Not what his two eyes alleged, nor his two ears

31. And to you, O Most High, sometimes
The sigh overcomes the smoke of its fire

32. I did not forget, and tribulation is charged
With speech, whether by foot or by man

33. When I said, “Bring those teeth you hoarded,”
The doctor took off his robe, and I said, “Or my shroud.”

34. And tears welling in his eyelids
And for me they flow from remembering the two lids

35. And I saw in him what he saw in himself
At the intention, so I wept him and my weeping