Bonsai of Thoughts (Translated)

Bonsai of Thoughts: One Hundred Fifty-Six

1. Remorse? What remorse? That requires a heart! So I ask you, what exactly is your remorse?

2. Thinking it wine, I lift the cup of poison to my lips again and again! O God! Tell me, what binds my fate? Poison? Or wine?

3. I turned to drink to forget you. Now I see, in every drop of wine, only your face!

4. The one who lives in the heart—
why do these weary eyes seek only him?

5. Waiting and waiting for you, my eyes have worn away! Now what if I don't find you! That beauty has already wound itself around my mind!

6. What was mere straw to you
was life itself to me!
What you could cast away so easily,
I still live by today!

7. Looking toward your greatness, when did I learn to overlook your secret life, do you know? From the moment I learned to love you.

8. I don't love you because I see your greatness,
I see your greatness because I love you.

9. Because I never learned to keep my distance, I don't say aloud: Yes, I have moved away!

10. I kept walking only with dust on my skin,
never even learned to crawl...
Walking is still so far away!

11. When his fate rests in your very hands,
why are you so eager to push him away?

12. After finding you
I no longer see even my own shadow,
in its place I see you!

13. Why did you break this heart and take pieces with you? Didn't you have a mirror in your home?

14. : Finding you only increased my suffering!
: And I only knew suffering after I found you!

15. In your pain, I have a full share,
in my pain, you leave an empty mark!

16. If you had to give so much sorrow, Lord,
why didn't you give someone to share it?

17. All night alone,
as if I still haven't
met you today!

18. Before there was breath, but no life;
now there is life, but no breath.

19. I became so shameless in your love
that now I'm ashamed to stand before a mirror!

20. The same heart;
yet before and after your arrival
completely different!
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