In Context, Attachment: One

You have awakened my Self, beloved,
your dawn spreads through every corner of my being!
Just as my heart sways, my friend,
so have I received you, surrendering mind and soul.
Whatever I speak is only of you,
and when I speak nothing at all, in silent thought I weave tenderness for you alone.
 
In love, nothing exists between two hearts,
from longing words bloom like flowers,
only one who has fallen in love knows how it feels to fall!
Love is something that has no commentary, where no logic applies.
The heart that can openly speak of how love binds it only tells lies.
What lives in the heart leaves no room in the mind,
yet you live within that very space—
tell me, what commentary could there be for that?
 
I have bound you within my mind with two kinds of love.
One: love that trembles with desire.
Two: love that comes by itself when I think of you.
In the first, my entire existence becomes you,
and finds no peace anywhere else, abandoning you.
Your colors stick to the walls of my eyes—like stubborn posters.
In the second, whether my eyes close or open, I see only you!
Because I can see beyond the bounds of sight, I cannot see you when you come near.
You are such a person who comes to the mind's eye or the eye's mind in just this way!
 
O Lord, if I call to you
from fear of hell, then burn me to death!
If I call to you
from greed for heaven, then keep those doors closed to me.
But if I call to you
from love, then give me just a particle of your light.
 
My most precious treasure is hope in you,
your name sounds sweetest on my tongue.
As long as you stay beside me, let life stay that long too!
I cannot live even a moment without seeing your face—
tell me, how will I live without you in another world after death?
In this birth you are foreign; I plead, in another birth remain mine.
 
Another night passes, yielding to another new day's call,
in this auspicious moment of daybreak tell me, did my night pass well?
If it passed well, I'll find peace.
Or did I waste this night like all the nights before?
For what I've lost, drowning in regret, I'll punish myself a little.
I swear by all your promises, my days have passed in faith in you,
I've lived in your shadow with deep breath.
My friend, stay beside me, whatever happens, I'll manage.
Even if you drive me away, in great anger I'll move away for a moment,
I'll return to your side again!
How can I take leave from my own heart?
 
All who have seen your form in feeling
have said, What light this is! The eyes are lost in streams of light! How good I was before!
I float in the magical current of an endless ocean,
an endless ocean floats within me too!
What magic is this! What is happening to me!
I see that you and I are one! I count that you and I are one! I hear that you and I are one!
My two eyes seem to close from some fear!
Yet from an even greater fear I keep my eyes open—lest I lose you!
 
Though I am impure and sinful,
still I know I will be forgiven.
I am the vile dust of the road,
in this life receiving only mockery and the honey of humiliation.
I am a hopeless and rejected traveler,
a thorn of sorrow in humanity's eye,
searching for love I lost myself and became drunk,
all my work is worthless!
Yet I'll be forgiven as before!
 
Life is a strange creature—
what cannot be heard, it hears!
What cannot be done, it does!
What cannot be said, it says!
 
The night when prayer happens is a night of great joy.
When I close my eyes I find my Self close, in prayer.
When night falls and everyone's light fades, then my light comes.
Come not in separation but in union,
not in that light that only brings darkness,
float on the raft of the heart's infinite light!
I live in prayer, you live in the house of light.
Never let your sorrows and griefs come near,
when my prayer continues in your honor.
 
As long as my world exists, I want no sadness in love.
I love love deeply! So I don't break love's vow.
As long as earth lives, humans live, love will live that long and
in whatever is written about love, search for my name there.
Love lies in someone's braided hair, in someone's eyes, in someone's lips.
The more I've been deceived, the more I've learned—love lives only heart to heart.
I will live with love for eternity, winding love's thread around my heart,
my well-being or lack thereof is bound by love's good and bad alike.
 
Keep the fire of your love only in that heart.
The heart that burns in love's fire is the purest heart!
One who became drunk on the wine of your love,
let him remain drunk.
When the beloved comes, don't speak,
search through all of her and find yourself there,
together today make yourselves one, bowing pride, removing words,
if you cannot keep your own being pushed aside in that difference,
peace or happiness, you'll get nothing when you get the beloved!
 
Give me pain then, don't heal me,
the pain you give, I know, is like joy!
I know that even if hundreds search for you, no one will find you,
in finding there is happiness, but greater
is the happiness in keeping alive the hope of finding.
Getting everything is all deception, only death will remain.
 
Without you spring withers in colorless flowers,
I buy fire at water's price, rain falls in these two eyes.
No spring? Then rain is good!
For one without light, tears are light!
My yesterday and tomorrow became one today, not finding you,
months or years turned in a day, centuries like daughters of moments!
 
Does one who seeks a friend then suffer?
Does he wait with sorrowful eyes? Does he burn with vanished feeling?
Only one who burns knows truly how it feels to burn.
The rest only see the smile, only a friend sees the tears!
Pain's gift is blessing, one who stays in bearable pain, only he lives!
 
Finding you I want no world.
All the world's beauty grows pale before your beauty.
Thinking of you I can leave all of a whole world's happiness with a smile!
There was a time when I had not seen you,
I saw only my intellect, ability, the wisdom of my mind's contemplation.
And look now!
Nothing else—just your glance crushes mountains of pride and arrogance!
 
Rays emerge from your moon-like face, falling on the sun,
immediately I see the sun move away in some shame, just as wisdom dies from beauty's wound!
For you alone my sorrow has seen the world.
Tell me, why did you give this heart that fragrance which must be taken away?
Why did you move so far away? Because I am diseased?
I had no disease, beloved, when you were not in my mind!
 
I don't know this valley of separation! Free me from here!
The poor soul who became drunk in the folds of your thick hair,
what way out does he have, tell me! On what path will his weary soul find peace?
What kind of intoxication is this I have for you!
What chaos have you created in my heart!
How long I've been in disorder because of you!
From the day I gave my Self to you,
from that day I've been caught in my own trap, bound in your perfect disguise.