That beloved whom they worship with longing, why did they wound it as they wounded my own heart?
The wound that was meant for my heart, what pain, they bound it onto you instead.
Explanation: These fragmentary couplets speak of a wound meant for the poet's heart being transferred to the beloved. The imagery is deliberately ambiguous in the original.
Original · Persian
شمارهٔ ۲۱
ساقت که بآرزو پرستند او را
همچون دل من چرا بخستند او را
زخمی که حوالت گه او بود دلم
دردا گه برشته بر تو بستند او را