1. I do not humble myself before him
Until the stone softens for the chewing tooth

2. Nor do I shorten my passion for him
Until fate shortens its aims

3. Nor do I befriend his nearness
Until poetry befriends the belly of comfort

4. Nor do I reconcile his heart
Until a bird is seen from his water splash

5. So how I have excused him with wishes
And that clarity has destroyed him with gloom

6. And how I have repelled sorrow in him with sorrow
And there is no stopping what fate brings

7. And how I have mistaken the truth in him
And the truth is lucid, no deceits are hidden from it

8. And how I have opposed in him the soul, the friend
The insight of love, does not the vision look?

9. So in concealing my secrets he was
Like one who creeps to hide and in his anklet is jingling

10. And in keeping the deposits of my news
As one who stored spilled water in a spring

11. No doubt, I have repelled with it love
As the debtor repelled the creditor, the procrastinator

12. And I have turned my heart from that desire
As the thirsty turned from water, the sipper

13. So the weight of his love now in my eye
Is as the dust has flown in my leg, the winds

14. And the excuse of his betrayal in my hearing
As the flies have droned on the tablet of separation

15. And the harvest of his love in my heart
As the mirage has appeared on the tablet of the desert

16. And I have turned away from his abode
As the cheated turned away after his sale

17. And there was none like me descending to his like
But time straitened my hand with his hand