Number 15

Anyone who has longed for her face has wished for a flower to bloom on the thornbush. My heart's loss of itself is exactly where it should be, because it has longed to see her. As long as my heart is captive to being apart from her, it has wished for death a hundred times over. Tell whoever has wished for this fate to come and first look at the state I'm in. Whoever asks for love without its pain has wished for a rose without its thorns. In my chest is a heart that eats itself alive, because it has longed for the sorrow of the beloved. It flees into the shade of her hair, as the breeze longs for the rose garden. Reason cannot cook up the dream of union with her, no matter how much it has wished for it. Know that I rain down tears like the seeds of a pomegranate, for her ailing, drowsy eyes have wished it so.