Love means to pray like Hazrat Ebu Bekir’s prayer. You know what he says:
“Gracious God, make my body so big that there should be no empty place in the hell except me.”
MAHARANI (1)
Maharani! Love came down from my eyes to yours
It warmed my frost at my heart and love got quieted
Those smiles of yours are to brew at the advance of your heart
In the phases of love your departures move forward
Is this silhouette in the mirror, the waltz of the night?
Is this awkward longing at your heart, ember in desert?
Is there anything beyond death? Why do you become so angry?
Like Madonna you can take refuge in the Almighty
Maharani! You are love at the heart of my prince
You are mesiham melody brewed in the sound of the ney
Shrieking lines are the calls of love
In the servitude mansion my tongue spells your name
You should know my love; my passion has to do with the wound of separation
The Almighty Protector, let my heart in tatters animate me
Flame of my eyes are cured by your dimple
The lines in your forehead represent the tower of bondage
Maharani! You should know it is time to have the union
You should wipe the tears in your eyes with a curse
A thousand wishes emerge in me when I see your spring smile
If only I would be submitting my plight inside a mysterious universe
You got rid of the traps in the sea of the true
Have faith in your God and send a greeting far from
My curse filled the whole world and my fingers carry embers
I was burnt in the fire sea and my soul was reduced to ash
Maharani! Have you turned away from me in you?
I embrace you in me that I missed
My prince was parched by your love as it was true with Mecnun’s case
Not even a speck was left, and he became dust and was thrown into the air
Show mercy and take him out from the dungeon
For sure the end of this pretty love shall come
My tender body was enslaved in your palace
Let my pains go away, the reason for them is nothing but you
Maharani! You should know I composed poems for you
In the rest of your life only you should love me
Sorrow rains slowly on my wet eyes
Stars shoot in the night and my face gets pale
Let the poems stay hidden in suicidal pages
Let the deadly melodies of bird bloom in couplets
Oh Maharani! You have been my one glance love in me
I found elixir of life in you by dreams which feel jewel like
Translated by Mesut Senol