Number 3

MasnaviIraqi style
English

Number 3

Sometimes I sit alone, weighed down by trouble; sometimes I rise, shaken out of my own thoughts. I am a poor wretch, heartsick and without a friend, long caught in the longing for that beloved. I have spent my time now rising, now sitting still, the moon in its thirty days, and I caught in its net.
Explanation: The last couplet plays on the passage of time: the moon's monthly cycle of thirty days set against the poet's own restlessness.

Original · Persian

شمارهٔ ۳

گاه با خود نشسته ام ز بدی گاه برخاسته ز فکر خودی
من درویش زار بی دل و یار مدتی در هوای آن دلدار
بوده ام گه ز خاست،گه ز نشست ماه در سی و ماهی اندر شست