1. My longing sways between movement and stillness
Stirring the sorrow in my grieving heart

2. And endless longing remains confined in me
Like breath endlessly extended in every moment

3. My chest embraces a heart that embraces passion
Filling it with sorrow upon sorrow

4. Oh how longing dwells within my ribs
Established there like an enduring illness

5. I yearn for the one who was for me
An image not of water or of clay

6. For the love of eyes is not love
The love of an eye comes from loving eyes

7. Nor is all love free from the gossip of suspicions
Oh you, to whom my heart is pledged

8. Like an inscription carved in solid rock
If you turn your affection to my heart

9. How it would bend tender branches in longing
I sent you a greeting with the breeze

10. That told of aroma and jasmine
I sent it to a faithful soul

11. Hopefully borne on a faithful wind
I saw you had willingly embraced asceticism

12. To the point you preferred the clear truth
So you sell not religion for worldliness

13. And buy not worldliness with religion