Number 6

Iraqi style
English

Number 6

My heart weeps for her the way I weep for my home; like me, it mourns for the land and the fields and the meadow. In all my land and country I see nothing but her; my whole homeland weeps only for her.
Explanation: The poem is in a local dialect where 'her/beloved' and 'homeland' blur together, so the lover's country and his beloved become one longing.

Original · Persian

شمارهٔ ۶

دیله اویان چو من سامانه بگریت چو من بوم و بر و دامانه بگریت
بجز اویان نوینم بین بر و بوم بر و بومم همه اویانه بگریت