Saburi

Sibaai What does unadorned beauty look like? / Unconditional love without words or pressure? / What force holds me when I don’t want to hold on? / What encounter shapes me when I’d rather shape it?
Saburi My hands can’t play what my ears are hearing / Nor words describe what my eyes see. / My heart can’t bear what my feelings arouse / Nor my tears absorb what life leaves behind.
Shakibaai If it is for you, I’m ready to take the pain / If it is for me, I need to let it out / If it is for us, I would like to go / If it is for them, I’ll give my best And carry on.
As maa How much of me is in the picture you have of me? / How much of myself did I let you see? // Should there be more of us? / Maybe more of you? / Why not more of me? // How much of you is in the picture I have of you? / How much of yourself do you want me to see?
Nemibinam Nemibinam You see something in me that I cannot, / Hear something through me / That I can only sense. / Can I see with your eyes? / Hear with your ears? / So I may see the beauty in me, / Hear the beauty through me, / Discover the beauty in me.
Hedije May I feel lonely, though you’re with me? / Forgive me when I want to die. / I keep forgetting life’s a gift.

As ney

As Ney - Song of the Reed-Flute Listen to the song of the reed-flute, Lamenting its banishment from its home “Ever since they tore me from my reed bed My plaintive notes have moved men and women to tears I burst my breast, giving vent to sighs To express the pangs of yearning For everyone who is far from his home Longs for the day he can return.” If my Beloved would only touch me with his lips I too, like the flute, would burst forth in melody. But whoever is parted from those who speak his language Becomes dumb, though he knows a hundred songs However much I describe and explain love When I fall in love I´m ashamed of my words. Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear But love unexplained is clearer. When the pen hastened to write, On reaching the subject of love it split in two. Rumi
Niyãyesh - Prayer When I talk to you I begin to know myself When you listen, my spirit is raised In your nearness I can face my fears With you my world simply turns more freely
Kalãm -Words Words of love that destroy me Words which speak before they listen Why did I let them into my heart? And who will take away this pain?
Dassthã -Hands Hands of love, which found me Hands that console before they act. Now I can open my fists And from this love create.
Delbasstegi - Closeness Warmed by the sun’s rays Enveloped in silence’s power Sorrow and transience have faded Living dreams of connectedness remain Forget the wall that separates us And find the path that leads you to me.
Sendegi - Life Loneliness displaced my happiness Death took away my courage Fear robbed me of my strength And grief silenced me I live – therefore I am Through love I die – still I lived Through love Longing brought me this far Truth opened my eyes Hope gave me courage And faith gave me strength. I live – therefore I am… Wisdom directed my path Pain let me grow Time made me strong And love showed me the meaning I live – therefore I am…
Por se ssedã - Resonating When you hear the speech of people of the heart, don’t say, “It’s wrong.” You are not a connoisseur of speech, my dear. In this is the error. It’s for this that in the Magian Temple they hold me dear. That a fire which never goes out is forever in my heart. What was the tune that last night the minstrel strummed, So that life departed, and my brain stayed filled with desire? Last night the call of love for you was planted within me: Out of passion my breast is still resounding with its echo. Hãfes
Nãgofte - Untold Hang no lock of silence on these lips Inside me there’s an untold story Take the heavy chains from my feet There is a passion that troubles my heart Hang no lock of silence on these lips For I must share my secret And reach the ears of all the world Singing my fiery song Forough Farrokhzãd
Ashkhã - Tears Today I give my sorrow free rein Drench my pain with your deep tones Dearest Kim, please don’t stop, please don’t stop. I want to open all my wounds And let the tears flow In this moment setting wisdom aside. Gratefully I let each tear fall Dive deep into the sea Let me swim awhile In search of a reason

Bemun

Gofteguje man The eternal secrets neither you know nor I And answers to the riddle neither you know nor I Behind the veil there is much talk about us, why When the veil falls, neither you remain nor I. translated by Shahriar Shahriari There was the Door to which I found no Key; There was the Veil through which I might not see: Some little talk awhile of ME and THEE there was - and then no more of THEE or ME. translated by Fitzgerald
Aresuje Didar Caught by the moment The desire is growing I want you to be with me Take my time, call me My heart is still beating for your nearness Where are you? The distance is growing But my thoughts are still with you I love you and I want to be with you To hold your hand And listen to your words I will open up my heart.
Porr kon Whether at Naishapur or Babylon, Whether the Cup with Sweet or Bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life kept falling one by one. Were it not folly, Spider-like to spin The Thread of present Life away to win- What? For ourselves, who know not if we shall Breathe out the very Breath we now breathe in! translated by Fitzgerald
Bemun (Naomi) My heart don’t leave Open those beautiful eyes of yours My heart don’t leave, stay Let us watch the falling of the leaves My heart don’t leave, stay with me Because God has poured out his love into our hearts
Bi deldari Miserable is a heart that has no beloved. It is difficult to be without a friend or a beloved. These few moments which you can never find again, If you have a heart, do not be without a beloved. translated by Reza Saberi
In childhood we strove to go to school, Our turn to teach, joyous as a rule The end of the story is sad and cruel From dust we came, and gone with winds cool. translated by Shahriar Shahriari Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went. translated by Fitzgerald
Gosara Today I ain’t gonna look at you I don’t even wanna get close Don’t think that you can bring me round I just won’t talk to you My time is too precious I won’t give it to you My time is too precious Wasting it with you Last week you made me lose my mind I gave you more than you’re worth I put all my strength and my effort in you But nothing came in return I can hear you knocking at my door How could you know that I am home I still refuse to open up I beg you don’t knock no more Please don’t knock no more
When you hear the words uttered by the men of heart, do not say that they are in error; You are not a connoisseur of words, my dear, And that is where the error lies. translated by Kianush
Meloton I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Revelation 22,13

Per se

1. Per se

1  How long, O LORD? Will you forget me for ever?
    How long will you hide your face from me?
2  How long must I wrestle with my thoughts
    and every day have sorrow in my heart?
    How long will my enemy triumph over me?

2. Delam

My heart has broken
the bounds of patience,
come, O Minstrel,
Come and play your saddest tune,
        as this is how my life
        can be soothingly tuned.

4. Biaban

Wounded at heart,
        I am sunk in deep silence,
Yet I wonder who is in me
        so bitterly crying and clamouring!

5. Nachofteam

Sleep is driven away from my eyes
        by the desirable dreams
        my soul has been weaving;
I am suffering from
        a heavy hangover of a hundred nights,
        where is the tavern?

7. Old colors

And, strange to tell, among that Earthen Lot
Some could articulate, while others not:
And suddenly one more impatient cried-
“Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?”

10. Owas

5  But I trust in your unfailing love;
    my heart rejoices in your salvation.
6  I will sing to the LORD,
    for he has been good to me.