"Come, come again, whoever you are, come!
Heathen, fire worshipper or idolatrous, come!
Come even if you broke your penitence a hundred times,
Ours is the portal of hope, come as you are."

 

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy,
absentminded. Someone sober
will worry about things going badly.
Let the lover be.

 

You've no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You.
Nothing seemed right.
What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the Ocean.
Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient.
It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these.
So- I've brought you a mirror.
Look at yourself and remember me.

 

There is some kiss we want with
our whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater
begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately
it needs some wild darling! At night, I open the window and ask
the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into
me. Close the language- door and open the love window. The moon
won't use the door, only the window.

During the day I was singing with you.
At night we slept in the same bed.
I wasn't conscious day or night.
I thought I knew who I was,
but I was you.

 

I'm neither beautiful nor ugly, neither this nor that
Teacher gives me a name so that I'll know what to call myself
I'm neither slave nor free
I've not fallen in love with anyone, nor is anyone in love with me
Whether I'm sinful or good, sin and goodness come from another
 not from me.

 

When I am with you, we stay up all night,
When you're not here, I can't get to sleep.
Praise God for these two insomnia!
And the difference between them.

 

Asked what road do you know of?
Said I know of no other road, except the one that leads to my beloved.
Asked what faith do you believe in?
Said I know of no other faith, except the one I have in my beloved.

Oh Beloved,
Take away what I want.
Take away what I do.
Take away what I need.
Take away everything
that takes me from you.