Bonsai of Thoughts (Translated)

Bonsai of Thought: One Hundred and Forty-Six

1. As much as I have made you weep,
today you make your beloved laugh even more.
Yet you yourself would say,
you are not vengeful!

2. If I could kiss you as I pleased,
even ten thousand kisses would fall short!

3. Dear friend, even if you won't keep friendship,
at least keep the enmity?
I beg of you, never end this bond!

4. Never fear the world's shame;
know that I keep you hidden
like my most beloved sin.

5. When you were here,
there was sorrow, but there was courage too.
Because you are gone
today only sorrow remains, courage is no more.

6. Ah, that is no mirror, it is myself!
Alas, this is no mirror, it is myself!

7. Each old pyre,
each new volcano.

8. I beg of you, do not be angry!
The one who fashioned you so beautifully,
has also made me fall in love with that beauty.
Come, let us spend the rest of life blaming him together!

9. Why do you pour so much wine into these eyes?
Will you handle me when I'm drunk?
Or will you abandon me and flee?

10. People die to reach heaven.
And I, I died upon finding heaven!

11. Let people say what they will,
you stay with me!
Tell me, will people's tongues ever still,
even if we remain apart?

12. Before life can even begin
the vessel of years runs dry!

13. History's return...
is it then only in times of sorrow?

14. Will there not come even one day
in this life, when
I can live forgetting you?

15. What beauty I possess,
if you wish to know, ask the one
who has loved me.

16. Whether you will come to shed
two tears at my grave—
this thought prevents me from dying in peace!

17. What use is heaven!
You won't be there!
Though I've been deceived,
still I love!

18. To be your companion after death
I'm sinning my heart out while there's time!
Even if you are an ocean of sin,
I want to be a fish in that very ocean.

19. Do not think of wine as your rival.
When you are gone
this wine will keep you alive!

20. Who said
fire ignites only when stone strikes stone?!
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