1. The darkness of night disturbed me, and lightning flashed
While I was awake though all were asleep

2. I would unfold a path from my past I had folded
And a vision appears, then another fades away

3. I love when darkness spreads its veil over me
And my thoughts flutter upon it

4. And if I lay my weary, tossing head
I hear my veins pounding as they think

5. My temple throbs with sweat as if
A steed were galloping in my pillow

6. My guts blaze like a fire warming itself
Can guts and head cool when body burns?

7. I’m but a spectator passing by
And the universe is but a theater and gallery for me

8. Evil has its factions and good its allies
This forbids tomorrow while that provokes today

9. A person acts according to his nature
Disregarding what religion and law impose

10. The books of the pious and the law are soiled
Covered by the dust of deceit and moth-eaten

11. When zealotry blinds people to what they love
Destruction awaits the trespassing fool

12. I doubt the universe, mankind, love and devotion
But doubt itself cannot be doubted

13. When I visit a vineyard in autumn
Shaken by gales tearing off leaves

14. I see amidst its branches remnants of vitality
Like a sickly dormouse in cracking bones

15. I leave feeling lonely and yearn for
Gardens lush, waves foamy and splashing

16. I love verdure and blossoms but
My times show me what they abhor and despise