The document is a poem written in Portuguese that expresses longing and regret over a lost love. It questions why the speaker's love's mouth came tempting and searched for theirs without warmth. It asks why they saw each other then but not now, and wants but does not find their love. It expresses sadness that their embrace did not last longer before departing, and that their lost sighs are the light that their hope of living a little longer clings to. It asks that their tempting gesture not be judged, and that they come asking for the alms of affection, putting their pain in God's hands.