1. I recalled the love for my beloved as if it were
The ruins of Khola with faded lightning

2. And my covenant with him which was firm for me
Appears like the rest of a tattoo on the back of the hand

3. I stood by it, neither certain of its return
Nor despairing, I cry and cry until tomorrow

4. Until people prolonged my excuse and increased
Saying do not perish from grief and be patient

5. As if the arts of anger from the one I loved
Were lines of a ship with nails

6. As if the turning away and reunion were a vessel
By which the sailor passes one time and is guided another

7. So there was a time of consent followed by a time of anger
As the facing dunes divide with the hand

8. And he smiles at me while turning away angrily
Facades of pearls and gems