EAST OF SORROW · POEM 21 OF 25
شکستم، و دویدم، و فتادم
I Broke, and Ran, and Fell
English translation draft, awaiting review.
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I cast each piece of my gaze somewhere, filled existence with gazing.
هر تکه نگاهم را جایی افکندم. پر کردم هستی ز نگاه.
On the lip of a marsh, I saw a fragment of your smile upon the mud, went to prayer.
بر لب مردابی، پاره لبخند تو بر روی لجن دیدم، رفتم به نماز.
At the base of a thorn, your memory was hidden. I picked it, scattered it upon the world.
در بن خاری. یاد تو پنهان بود. برچیدم. پاشیدم به جهان.
Upon the strings of trees, I played the melody of growing from oneself, spreading into oneself.
بر سیم درختان زدم آهنگ ز خود روییدن و به خود گستردن.
And I furrowed the unbroken night of prayer, scattered the seed of mystery.
و شیاریدم شب یکدست نیایش. افشاندم دانه راز.
And I ran to nothing, and ran to the face of death, to the kernel of awareness.
و دویدم تا هیچ، و دویدم تا چهره مرگ، تا هسته هوش.
And I fell upon the rock of pain. My finger grew wet with the dew of seeing you. I trembled.
و فتادم بر صخره درد. از شبنم دیدار تو تر شد انگشتم. لرزیدم.
A gust was passing from a slope. I went a step with it.
وزشی میرفت از دامنهای. گامی همره او رفتم.
At the bottom of darkness, I saw a lone sun, ate it, lost myself, and I was
ته تاریکی. تک خورشیدی دیدم. خوردم. و زخود رفتم. و رها