This world deprives us of what not given us Behind a perverse smile I bring my misery Behold the heart of this worthless creature That which overflows bitterness and baseness Crawling among the stones of disappointment Through the grief and despair Our self-seeking tale A tenebrous cloud of pure sorrow has alighted upon my world Fragments of a storm of pure self-rejection burnt my eye-lids And I was compelled to face the portrait of my selfishness In a black chalice I will drink the tears That will flow along the human path For the joy that never could I sow I will ever stand on my knees