Time has plunged me into an ocean of pain and woe Poem by Khurshid Banu Natavan

Time has plunged me into an ocean of pain and woe,
Parted me with my sun-faced; all is dark wherever I go.
My patience has reached its limit, O God almighty on high!
Either allow me to join him, or have mercy and let me die.
In vain I implored and begged you, you left and never returned.
Now come and look at me, sun-faced, see into what I have turned.
How long must I pine in longing-my life is all misery.
Have pity, at least for a moment; beloved, remember me.
What terrible tortures I suffer! Our parting I cannot bear.
Am I worthy of nothing better than eternal grief and despair?
Our parting has stolen my reason, my soul has forgotten repose.
Behold how merciless fortune has doomed me to endless woes.
I wonder why my cruel lover will not have pity on me.
I burn in the flame of parting-the one who lit it was he!
How beautiful were those days when I was together with you.
Now I am broken-hearted, sadly my fate I rue.
For a while I was reunited with my lover, that pitiless man,
But now I am once again lonely - I have become Natavan [1].