I have settled down
at the tavern’s threshold;
I have settled down
away from the people of the world.
Always dead drunk
from remembering the Friend,
I have settled down,
free from all chatter and commotion.
For a while I wandered from place to place,
guided by the heart in search of Her;
now for Her sake, I have abandoned all movement
and settled down.
The heart was trapped
in the lasso of Her two tresses;
I have settled down
in Her bewitching forelock’s curl.
Those drunken eyes
have robbed me of rest;
crazed, I have settled down
in the curls of Her tresses.
Like a moth, my existence was burned away
by the candle flame of Her face;
I am now ash and have settled down
in her lush hair.
My Beloved
asked about Nurbakhsh —
I said, “It is for Your sake that
I have settled down without him.”