This is Love

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky,

to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.

First, to let go of live.

In the end, to take a step without feet;

to regard this world as invisible,

and to disregard what appears to be the self.

Heart, I said, what a gift it has been

to enter this circle of lovers,

to see beyond seeing itself,
to reach and feel within the breast.

( The Divani Shamsi Tabriz, XIII)

'Amor

Cinta lelaki seumpama gunung,
Ia besar tapi tetap dan sayangnya bermusim,
Sewaktu ia bisa meletus dan memuntahkan lahar, menghapuskan apa saja yang ditemuinya.

Tapi,

Cinta perempuan itu diibaratkan seperti kuku,
Ia hanya dihujung jari tetapi selalu tumbuh perlahan lahan,
Diam dan terus - menerus bertambah,
Jika ia dipotong,
Ia akan tetap tumbuh dan tumbuh lagi.

Rahsia Luna

Seterang bulan di taman mainan
Ku pasti kau jadikan sebuah khayalan
Dan kau pergi dari sini
Aku tak mahu kesana

Seindah bulan di taman khayalan
Ku pasti kau jadikan sebuah perhiasan
Dan kau pergi dari sini
Aku tak mahu ke sana

Cinta
Mengapa kau sering mengata diri
Mengapa kau sering membohongi diri
Ku tak mahu kau pergi ke sana ke mari

Cinta
Mengapa kau sering membohongi diri
Apakah aku yang sering tak mengerti
Ku tak mahu kau datang kembali...
Kembali ke sini...

Love is a Water of Life

Everything other than love for the most beautiful God
though it be sugar- eating.
What is agony of the spirit?
To advance toward death without seizing
hold of the Water of Life.

(Masnawi I 3686-87)

Dealova

aku ingin menjadi mimpi indah dalam tidurmu
aku ingin menjadi sesuatu yg mungkin bisa kau rindu
karena langkah merapuh tanpa dirimu
karena hati telah letih

aku ingin menjadi sesuatu yg selalu bisa kau sentuh
aku ingin kau tahu bahwa ku selalu memujamu
tanpamu sepinya waktu merantai hati
bayangmu seakan-akan

kau seperti nyanyian dalam hatiku
yg memanggil rinduku padamu
seperti udara yg kuhela kau selalu ada

hanya dirimu yg bisa membuatku tenang
tanpa dirimu aku merasa hilang
dan sepi, dan sepi

selalu ada, kau selalu ada

Love

What's wrong with you, with us,
what's happening to us?
Our love is a harsh cord
that binds us wounding us
and if we want to leave our wound,
to separate,
it makes a new knot for us and condemns us
to drain our blood and burn together.

What's wrong with you? I look at you
and I find nothing in you but two eyes
like all eyes, a mouth
lost among a thousand mouths that I have kissed, more beautiful,
a body just like those that have slipped
beneath my body without leaving any memory.

And how empty you went through the world
like a wheat-colored jar
without air, without sound, without substance!
I vainly sought in you
depth for my arms
that dig, without cease, beneath the earth:
beneath your skin, beneath your eyes,
nothing,
beneath your double breast scarcely raised
a current of crystalline order
that does not know why it flows singing.
Why, why, why,
my love, why?

-Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)

Love's Secret

Never seek to tell thy love,
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.

I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart;
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears,
Ah! she did depart!

Soon as she was gone from me,
A traveler came by,
Silently, invisibly
He took her with a sigh.

-William Blake (1757-1827)

Broken Vow

Tell me his name
I want to know
The way he looks
And where you go
I need to see his face
I need to understand
Why you and I came to an end

Tell me again
I want to hear
Who broke my faith in all these years
Who lays with you at night
When I'm here all alone
Remembering when I was your own

I let you go
I let you fly
Why do I keep on asking why
I let you go
Now that I found
A way to keep somehow
More than a broken vow

Tell me the words I never said
Show me the tears you never shed
Give me the touch
That one you promised to be mine
Or has it vanished for all time

I close my eyes
And dream of you and I
And then I realize
There's more to love than only bitterness and lies
I close my eyes

I'd give away my soul
To hold you once again
And never let this promise end

A Broken Heart

A broken heart,
heals with time and acceptance,
but the scars would never fade
no matter how long it takes..
because, what was once in your heart,
will always stay in your mind
throughout your whole life time..

The First Cut is the DEEPEST

I would have given you all of my heart
but there's someone who's torn it apart
and she's taking almost all that I've got
but if you want, I'll try to love again
I'll try to love again but I know

The first cut is the deepest, I know
'cause when it comes to being lucky she's cursed
when it comes to lovin' me she's worst
but when it comes to being loved she's first
that's how I know

I still want you by my side
just to help me dry the tears that I've cried
cause I'm sure gonna give you a try

Indeed, the first cut is the deepest

Sonnet 17

I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as certain dark things are loved,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom and carries
hidden within itself the light of those flowers,
and thanks to your love, darkly in my body
lives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving

but this, in which there is no I or you,
so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close

Pablo Neruda - 1960

First Love

our last kiss
tasted like tobacco
a bitter and sad smell

tomorrow, at this time
where will you be?
who will you be thinking about?

you are always gonna be my love
even if I fall in love with someone once again
I'll remember to love
you taught me how
you are always gonna be the one
it's still a sad song
until I can sing a new song

the paused time is
about to start moving
there's many things that I don't want to forget about

tomorrow, at this time
I will probably be crying
I will probably be thinking about you

you will always be inside my heart
you will always have your own place
I hope that I have a place in your heart too
now and forever you are still the one
it's still a sad song
until I can sing a new song

you are always gonna be my love
even if I fall in love with someone once again
I'll remember to love
you taught me how
you are always gonna be the one
it's still a sad song
until I can sing a new song