Bonsai of Thoughts: Forty-Three

1. I know you will not remain beside me all your life.
I also know this: having found you, I have found myself.
I need no other reason to keep you close.

2. That you do not mend your ways, yet I stay with you still — this does not mean I have begun to love your faults. Because they are yours, I accept them; but my objections remain, and always will!

3. You can give sorrow, and I too can weep.
The wealth is equal between us! What cause for such pride?

4. When you are with me, you stare at your phone constantly.
Why not call me instead during the time you spend talking to your phone?

5. Do not behave so badly with anyone else;
when your mood or temper turns sour,
treat me badly in peace.
Those who do not love you might cause you harm!

6. Seeing my poetry, you fell in love with me,
and now you are the very one forbidding me to write!

Why do you forget — just as you will find many lovers but no poet,
I too may find many beloveds, but no poetry.
If you wish to love me, you must first love my verse.

7. Go ahead and leave then!
It has been so long since I drew a full breath!

8. When you were leaving,
I wept not looking at you;
I was looking at my life.

9. Who does your work for you now?
Who waits for you each day now?
Who says sorry first now, even when you are wrong?

10. If you do not come this time,
I swear to God, even if you want to, I will never let you come again!

11. Your only problem:
you remember nothing.
My only problem:
I can forget nothing!
God's only problem:
only what never happened comes to your mind!

12. Whether I can forget you or not,
time will tell.
That I can never forget our memories —
this much I can say right now!

13. I celebrate neither spring nor youth.
What use are such things to one whose life has been plundered!

14. Today you are not here,
today the nights are long.
Today you are not here,
today the nights are wasted.
Today you are not here,
today the nights belong to them.

15. Friend, what do you see so intently in the mirror?
Can you see fate there?
If not, what good comes from staring at your forehead?

16. You've spent your whole life pillaging,
and now you come to give advice?

Bastards like you are not just bastards — you're sons of pigs!

17. If my poetry troubles you too much,
then do not go to the poetry;
come to the poet instead!
...For when you come, poetry comes too!

18. The poet's heroine lives only in his verse,
she who lives in his life is merely neglected!

If you wish to be the heroine,
stay in the poet's poetry, do not enter his life!

19. If there were a meter to measure how often I think of you,
I would go bankrupt just paying the bills!

20. How easily you end this relationship!
Now how am I to end you!?