Bonsai of Thoughts: Ninety-Eight

1. Your nights—chambers of love.
My nights—workshops of toil.
Your separation,
my union.

2. Money in hand, yet they won't spend.
Life in hand, yet they won't live.

3. A faithful butterfly arrives,
settles on the hues of this soul and says,
Come, let's fly!

4. Come, let's both together
go further than even
the ant and the bee.

5. Even when the story ends,
I am still here!
Keep faith.

6. They don't want the sinner punished.
They only want him punished
whom they dislike.

7. She wore no anklets.
How silently from behind
she struck the knife and left!

8. In this world of doubt and hesitation
no one is alone,
though everyone lives in solitude.

9. I gaze toward the face of oblivion.
Immediately memory comes
and grips me by the throat.

10. Those who live in suffering
seek and gather
only more suffering.

11. Those who run the state—
what sin could they possibly have!?

12. Baseless expectations,
justified foolishness.

13. In the toxicity of relationships,
the soul's gradual death.

14. Rest in peace...
Are you praying this
for the very one you never let live in peace!?

15. On your breast,
the wet reflection
of moonlight.

16. The heat of your anger
drinks up all my tears
in an instant.

17. At last,
I found my heart exactly there
where I had never lost it.

18. Go stand before the mirror.
Shout out what you want.
See how it feels to witness
the intensity of your own desire!

19. Let the idle ones scream.
Since they can't act,
what else can they do!

20. To reach the feet of truth,
to reach the feet of the great souls—
learn some shortcuts.