Sol 5.6

  1. My soul beholds you with my eye and in my mind.

    And your apparition in my imagination has never left me.

  2. You dwelt within the heart until it became a bridal chamber

    for your glimmer, flashing before the very pupil of my eye.

  3. My heart declares it, in secret and aloud:

    words of certainty, not mere conjecture.

  4. The soul imagines you far removed

    from sleep-robbing longing and cruel injustice.

  5. ؟

    Is it true that you have come to love a soul other than mine,

    and that love has been lost in an exhausting fate?

  6. You feigned forgetting youth, and forgot a love

    whose purity shines from you and me.

  7. People have spun out, amid clamorous chatter, a tale

    detailing what happened concerning you and me.

  8. :

    They say the yearning in me has subsided,

    and the heart has fasted from a love that touched me;

  9. ،

    yet ardent yearning has exceeded all bounds in its passion.

    You desire someone other than me—does that not mean

  10. ؟ !

    that you have broken every covenant

    and promise? Alas for hope’s stumble!

Sol 5.6