Easy and Impossible
I am
and
am not.
This is the law of love
so impossible that never
with all the pure thought you had
were you able to explain its rule.
Explaining the rule
is the work of philosophers
I have nothing to do with such matters
I
only this, that the night
turns to morning with the wish for your being
gives shape to my warm law of love.
So easy that never
the field of a pure thought
is able to absorb its rule.
Machine translation from the Persian
Original Persian
سهل و ممتنع
Sunlight, Moonlight
هستم
و
نیستم .
قانون عشق همین است
آن قدر ممتنع که هرگز
با آن همه تفکر خالص که داشتی
قادر به شرح قاعده ی آن نبوده ای .
توضیح قاعده
کار فلاسفه است
کاری به این امور ندارم
من
تنها همین که شب
با آرزوی بودن تو صبح می شود
قانون گرم عشق مرا شکل می دهد .
این قدر سهل که هرگز
میدان یک تفکر خالص
قادر به جذب قاعده ی آن نمی شود .