Since my love left, my patience fled from me,
and from every eyelash a thousand drops of blood-tinged tears fell.
It seems I will never see her again;
'may anyone who cannot see go blind.'
Explanation: The final line is a Persian proverb, wishing blindness on whoever cannot see, used here as a bitter play on the poet's own inability to see his beloved.
Original · Persian
رباعی شمارهٔ ۱۳
تا یار برفت صبر از من برمید
وز هر مژهام هزار خونابه چکید
گوئی نتوانم که ببینم بازش
«تا کور شود هر آنکه نتواند دید»