Bonsai of Thoughts (Translated)

Bonsai of Thoughts: Two Hundred Twenty

1. I always write
about you
and for you alone.

2. Come, let us speak in silence.
Words upon words lead only
to misunderstanding.

3. Not all mothers bear children in their womb.
Some mothers give birth
only to sorrow.

4. Does poetry not hold more tears
than the eye itself?
Does poetry not harbor more waves
than the sea itself?

5. Even without carrying a mobile phone or camera,
where would you want to go? With whom?
Wherever you wish to go—that is your beloved.
Whomever you wish to take—they are your beloved.

6. I have come back from playing with flowers,
and you threaten me with fire!

7. Those who appear dark and ugly—
their breath too carries the fragrance of flowers.
Didn't you know?
Ask their beloved ones and see.

8. Before I met you
and
after you left me—
I knew you more in those times
than I ever did
when you were beside me.

9. : What does love look like?
: Like a memory that has been lost!

10. Beloved, I beg you,
keep the wine away tonight!
Just seeing you
makes me feel drunk enough!

11. When the poet writes poetry,
a whale enters the body of a minnow.

12. There are some feelings
that remain ungrasped
precisely because we never met them.
There are some people
who remain ungrasped
precisely because we did meet them.

13. Seeing you,
I have seen a thousand oceans.
Having you,
I have lived a thousand lifetimes.

14. The woman who gave me peace
never entered my life.
The woman who taught me love—
I never met her at all.

15. The scars on your body are like
an artist's sketches!
The flaws in your nature are like
God's most beautiful mistakes!

16. The artist's hands are his heart. The artist's eyes are his soul.

17. What wondrous creations of God are these women!
They bleed every month, yet they live on.
This is why women know how to live with heads held high even with bleeding hearts.

18. Where I am,
and what I am...
these are two entirely different matters.

19. I want to leave,
yet I also want to stay.

20. I had lied.
I had said loving you brings me no joy.
Then I left you and walked away.
After that, I loved you even more.
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