Poem 3

Iraqi style
English

Poem 3

When I drink the wine, it makes me drunk; I dissolve into nothing, then rise back into being through it.
Explanation: The wine is a classic Sufi image for divine love that both annihilates the self and re-creates it.

Original · Persian

شمارهٔ ۳

چون بخورم باده شوم مست ازو نیست شوم باز شوم هست از او