1. My longing for you is far more than I can describe
How wonderful this longing, with no sorrow or regret

2. If only all separation from our loved ones
Was like our separation, so we may be reconciled

3. Rather, I wish our loved ones were our enemies
So there would be no illness or contempt from them

4. Longing is more deadly than the separation it causes
Hatred more fatal than love and intimacy

5. The lovers complain of separation, not knowing
The goodness of being close, had they not been far

6. We are as though snakes lie in our beds
Whose softness we enjoy, whose poison we sip

7. We think we have escaped, while time has coiled
Deceptively, and we don't know time does not stand still

8. If he forgave the souls of the people, he would not care
To pardon money, for it is the essence

9. And how many, how many people were humiliated after their glory
And wake to find death keeps them company

10. Thus is the vengeance of the Lord like His blessings
Encompassing all people and embracing them

11. O you who have become honor in my eyes through love
Yes, his love to me is honor

12. And one who is wronged but does not retaliate
As if the harm was repelled from him

13. While the pure of heart - time has extended its hand to him
Yet its way is harm and insolence

14. I complain yet am not complaining, for what was done to you
Has made you unable to complain for yourself

15. Let it not weigh on us if we are struck by it
For the full moon in the midst of the stars becomes eclipsed

16. The eclipsed moon bears no shame, for the sun
Is precedent, eclipsed before it

17. How could a person belittle something and reject it
Except after seeing one greater, as time halves