In the garden of love, joy is hard to find;
its thorns and flowers are quenched only by thirsty lips.
Sharing a single shirt with the flower bud,
wilting and blooming both lie sleeping together.
Explanation: The image of thirst being the only water suggests that in love, longing itself is what sustains. The bud holds both decay and flowering at once.
Original · Persian
شمارهٔ ۱۴
در گلشن عشق خرمی نایابست
خار و گلش از تشنه لبی سیرابست
با غنچه گل در ته یک پیراهن
پژمردگی و شکفتگی در خوابست