English
You Care Nothing for Me
You don't have the slightest concern for me;
your heart takes no interest in my good or bad.
What wrong did I do? On the dust of your doorstep
even the dogs have a place, but I have none.
You have countless lovers, it's true,
but in devotion not one of them equals me.
How can I find a way to reach you? How would I know,
when this matter isn't in my hands at all?
Don't tell me to be patient in my grief;
that is beyond my love-crazed heart.
You're excused: through your long nights
you have no word of my eyes that measure out the dark.
In the pain of longing, my heart remembers nothing;
in your easy pleasures, you give no thought to me.
My heart has lost itself in longing for you,
yet your heart holds no longing for me at all.