Bonsai of Thoughts (Translated)

# Bonsai of Thoughts: One Hundred Sixty-Three

1. After a while
you don't feel like talking even with dear friends,
you only want to remain silent.

2. Those who expect from people
who don't even know them—
they are the true beggars.

3. I spend my entire day
waiting for one glance from you.
Because you don't understand this simple truth,
you quarrel so!

4. What good comes of scolding in the language of fear!
Better to try calling out in the language of love!

5. Don't ask me
for myself;
rather, ask for yourself,
and you'll find me perfectly.

6. The more I've searched for you,
the more I've found myself.

7. In love,
the more the guarding,
the more the distance.

8. Eyes wide open, what are you searching for?
Love? Or me?
If that's the case,
then close your eyes right now!

9. What you call characterlessness,
to me is love itself.
Come, let's stay far apart.

10. I return to you...
to return to myself.

11. You want light?
Come to me!
Who else will burn
this much for you, tell me?

12. You left!
...taking my soul with you!

13. If different lamps
give the same light,
do people still
search for the old lamp?

14. Give me that morning of yours
where the sun
is a dear friend.

15. Why did you come for such a brief time?
Before I could understand you,
why did you misunderstand me so?

16. Then show me
which temple God doesn't dwell in!
I won't go there anymore!

17. I'm not giving you my time,
I'm giving you myself!
Rather, I'm grateful to you!

18. At whom I look and don't see myself,
at them I look only once!

19. : Will you be my mirror?
: I'm broken into fragments!
: Don't worry, I know how to keep myself in small pieces!

20. You want love, yet you flee from yourself!
If you want love, return to yourself!
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