To a Mind

When you look at me laughing, sunlight plays in the corners of your eyes,
I build a home in your heart, keep me there, wrapped in tenderness.......
Hold me in such enchantment, and I'll cross even mountains. Just watch!
When I'm drowning in regret and sorrow, reach out your hand,
I'll wrap myself in your touch. Do you think of me this way too?
To leave you even for a moment—that moment becomes eternity. Peace flees,
the twin of comfort and joy breaks apart, separation burns the heart, blazes fiercely!
Don't go far, don't move away forgetting, don't leave me in exile, O beloved!
I'll grow old with you, your hair will turn white in these hands,
We'll quarrel, I'll scatter in showers of words, refuse to show my face, misunderstand things,
I'll keep the phone within reach but let it ring, won't answer, puff up my cheeks in magnificent rage.
Touch my cheek tenderly with your lips, break my anger with your hand's soft caress,
bind me in emotion-soaked love within your heart's cage, wherever breath travels, embrace me there.
In your love, in music's magic, in gentle sunlight's soft shadow, in the deep intoxication of your eyes, bind me.
Stay young, I too will remain this young, I promise.
In trust, in my mind and body, bind yourself to me, keep your heart right there.

The word that wanders lost in the heart—I'll live happily in that word, whether it's false or precious,
I know this much: words never age, however much we grow older, however much we avoid distance with our gaze,
it will remain, will bind me, will keep you, just as now it binds in hope, makes us forget death, awakens in dreams of imagined worlds.
Sometimes days pass, months end, we are alone, remain alone with ourselves, infinite doubt or that dam makes us weep in silent language.
In what love do I bind truth to my heart in an instant by keeping and binding?
In what tenderness do I nurture that laughing melody, that melody which vanishes in a moment in illusory enchantment?
Even when the sun hides away, dissolves in a whim, we'll remain, grow warm, call to the day in that darkness, stay blessed!

I know it's deception, but what does it matter? I'm living in that very deception, the two of us together in twoness, we'll learn later what lies ahead, I'm living quite happily, smearing all happiness on my chest,
a crowd of small joys gathers around our little home, fistfuls of light fountains, we float in that light, fly paper lanterns to dream islands, in light's storm the night awakens on that very island—isn't this enough!
Think a little, what we have that's ours, tell me how it's lacking in anything? I can touch you just by reaching out, when sorrow trembles a little, warm you make me forget that much. Chin reddened, at gentle taps in shy radiance time stops and remains dazed in the pupils of eyes. Days pass just like this. Nothing more needed, one floor, one sheet, the roof lives pressed against walls. How wonderful! Spreading a mat we'll sit very close together, then we'll see rice bloom like flowers, swimming joyfully in the current of lentils. I'll feed you lovingly, seating you in my lap, I'll serve you with love, see how silence becomes sound! In rain and sun and mist we two will live wonderfully well! When that room drowns in darkness, I'll break the moon's sleep! In happiness's breeze, in music's magic, in love's shadow, in fate's form we'll laugh together. Dreams float just this much! Can't you accept it?
How much more do we need in one life?

This world's cruelty will increase fear, even clutching truth, falsehood will come and shake us.
No one will remain in that danger, I'll stay alone with myself. On that day stay beside me,
smile a little in compassion and affection, hold my hand in love, bid farewell to emptiness,
let me float in streams of melody, keep me alive in dreams. When winter passes and summer comes,
frost retreats, sunlight plays on leaves and grass. In that hour, in that victory, we two will sing happily.
In love's thread, in waiting, love lives in this heart. Anger-love or dispassion, this world's heartbeat—stops and stands, adds to the heap one by one.
Your conviction, your confusion, your restlessness, your eyes' touch all over my memory's body—all these things
live in my dreams. Your fragrance spreads its traces in this mind, your memory awakens intense intoxication in fierce pull. God knows!
I no longer see your shadow in my eyes, no longer bind your form in mind's frame, your magic no longer awakens around my heart.
Truth is, though I'm a different body, my essence is the same as yours. Everyone outside sees two people, let them see! Listen, this is what I see, one heart in two bodies. Do you too become me and see like this? With such eyes? With such inclination?

If you say yes, come close, bind me in words
If you say yes, I'll seek one life as the heart desires
If you say yes, I'll give away this self, whatever you want
If you say yes, my chariot of words will race on your path
If you say yes, I'll wrap up your mind in a single kiss
If you say yes, forgetting all wealth, I'll be yours today
If you say yes, staying beside you forgetting calculations, I'll live laughing
If you say yes, make all thoughts yours and mine
If you say yes, wrap in magic, soak the heart in love
If you say yes, extinguish revolutionary melody and raise the moon now
If you say yes, spread your body peacefully in soft light
If you say yes, neon light's colors will come dance in eyes
If you say yes, let smoke and mist come, no worries
If you say yes, let the whole world hate, let it play the veena
If you say yes, if death comes let it come, let dangers increase
If you say yes, whatever happens, I'll guard your courtyard

Look at me with deep eyes, I remain gazing in some thirst to touch love today,
that feeling keeps awakening, the feeling that awakens your memory's weaving, this me.
What value does night have, tell me, if you remain far away? Stories and poems I casually push aside, grope for your hand in this darkness.
In your mischievous pupils, darkness's mirror sleeps, and keeps saying, you'll get everything you want, understand and take.
When you wish like wishing, rain descends from clouds, clouds move away, afternoon comes touring kingdoms, sunlight gathers. Look with such desire.
The shirt you touch and finger, that shirt I wrap around my body, your fragrance returns again and again, closing my eyes I see you.
Your face finds space beside me and remains, anklets on feet awaken me with your adornment, your laughter's fountain runs, in your voice's musical magic the heart gets lost.
I see all this, think of you, draw you on sky's back and in stars on the scales of mind.

In healthy mind there's no happiness in love,
how it feels to love well, who else understands if there's no love?
Falling in love brings madness to the head, disorder is rather good. Organized life—the burden is terrible! Let it go far away right now!
Drowning in that beauty later, dreams retreat. What lies ahead, that wins. What's seen is truth—greater than the unseen too.
On dark paths your eyes show me light on that path,
today the sun loses its way and hides in your heart, see.
Whispering near your ear I tell you, keeping me beside you for a whole lifetime, bind me in dreams.
Sorrow won't touch anywhere, if we stay united, share the pain with a little laughter.
Nothing more, keeping eyes in your eyes, staying very close beside you, holding hands in trust,
I'll just remain. This is the dream. The world will stand still, touching unconsciousness's storm. Crashing on shore it will calm.
My self will no longer remain, I'll become yours. Taking that moment as eternal in that instant.
Even if mountains break in that ocean, if South Pole ice melts completely, if ocean body floats land's body,
in that flood I'll float away to distant unknowns, whatever dissolution and destruction happens in this life, remember, even if death comes I'll stay beside—
that close, wherever your heart is. Live in this faith.
Let love become a ghost, let roses wither, let thorns pierce,
to get you a little. Whether I touch or don't touch, I'll take your hair's fragrance, in this hope,
I'll cross thousands of miles, whatever mountains oceans forests come before me, what's the fear?
When your face rises floating in these eyes, I'll bathe my body in moonlight with you,
touching mountains, in distant melodies night's flute will make us drunk with care,
we'll float together in river waves on moonlit nights, stars will burn filling the sky, fireflies will fly torches, water's breeze will fill the heart with sweet touch.—I think of these things again and again. Eyes laugh, lips tremble...........
Under trees, on wild paths, in fallen leaves' kingdom, in grass flowers' humming, in bees' swift wings, in butterflies' light traps—I see you everywhere returning.
Salty life becomes absent, salt increases sorrow's ocean. Happiness hides on ocean floor's bottomless bed, sun rises in black clouds of this life, when you understand the mistake, stay far away, bind me in tears.

Whenever you come beside me, I want to hold you and hide you, I bind time to a stop,
I seek peace in your eyes in all wonderful foods works or songs. I'll show you places wandering,
I'll do everything you want, just stay a little beside—just this much love.
Maybe my love will trouble you greatly, but know this, no one will love like this.
Even unnoticed when your eyes suddenly fall and drop, I promise, however it happens,
I'll bind you in love and tenderness, keeping me in sorrow I'll keep you in happiness's touch.
Under that ancient banyan's aged shade stop a little, rest. When walking strength runs out, sit a little on still lips—
you'll find me beside you in that hour. When emptiness remains throughout your world, I'll come, I'll fill
with cheerfulness and joy, I'll quench your thirst, in the small gap between hand's five fingers.
Does the world sleep? Let it sleep, I'm awake!

What do birds say chirping, if only I knew!
Light sword scatters sparkles—would fall in traps!
On empty streets the lamppost lights up
in dust mist gray smoke. Becoming a lamppost,
I'd float you in light in bird song.
Light stars would hide shy in my adornment.
Come as rain into life, shower gold as sunlight,
touch me as dawn—waking from sleep I'll find you.
One wonderful lie that is your body, your kiss!
Getting you, all wonderful lies will come touch life.
Coming as thief into life, it will flee in murderer's pride! I know that too!
I understand everything, yet I agree! In your arm's rope,
moments will pass centuries, in your touch another life—
the life I live in dreams will come I believe, will meet in riddles before eyes.
The melody that plays in your throat will bind me in love.

On your path, behind magic, in moment's enchantment, in worthless understanding I'll become senseless, restless remain smeared with twilight's rage.
Like a child crying torrents I'll want you, night's dew will burn smoke's body, your separation in knife blade will shed blood in the heart.
Sleepless night, I think these things, your fragrance memory's key. In own home fugitive life—I keep knocking on its door endlessly! No gatekeeper!
Misty night's breeze too spreads lies. In that lie moon stays awake, I too wake. Seeing me everyone makes merry in fun. No one listens, I keep knocking keep knocking.......
Saving the last tear of tears I'll throw see in sacrificial fire—anger will rise piercing fire!
My heart in pieces flies in wind, can you see? Lover's eyes—these eyes burn!
The truth that today truthfully governs me, I'll change that truth with love—I take oath!
I too will remain, you too will remain, love will remain with us. Calculating very carefully, cry that day!