O dearly loved night

Sweet and tender

As long as your compassion flows

Life, enveloped in it,

Shall be precious

Of moonlit nights my fate was born

Of suqs the palaces descend

And talking shadows swarmed my depth

As hunger forced me to steal from the markets

With the rosary in my hand

Without you I was nothing

I ate, I drunk and forgot never

Night's oversized shadows glisten to caress naked sighs

As he who came with empty hands departs to leave nothing

But a heart that has loved to extinction

Eternity flies.