Ghazal of Reconciliation
What have I done that you brought me to the prison of your anger?
The sinner was you, who made me fall in love
You have resolved to kill this weary me, my soul
take my life, then, and give up all this coldness
What was wrong with kindness, that you turned your face
from your clear spring toward dryness and pallor?
I raised you, sapling of my spring, on honey
shall I give you up to the salt marsh? You were raised in tenderness
Do not, do not, for the ages will remember
how you made the blood of my heart run from my eyes.
Machine translation from the Persian
Original Persian
غزل آشتی
Maani
چه کرده ام که به زندان قهرم آوردی؟
گناهکار تو بودی که عاشقم کردی
کمر به قتل من خسته بسته ای جانا
بگیر جانم و بگذر از این همه سردی
چه عیب داشت محبت ، که رو بگرداندی
ز چشمه سار زلالت ، به خشکی و زردی؟
تو را نهال بهارم به شهد پروردم
به شوره زار سپارم؟ تو ناز پروردی
مکن مکن که زمان ها به یاد بسپارند
چنین که خون دل از دیده ام روان کردی.