Farsi Couplet:
Mun tu shudam tu mun shudi,mun tun shudam tu jaan shudi
Taakas na guyad baad azeen, mun deegaram tu deegari


English Translation:
I have become you, and you me,
I am the body, you soul;
So that no one can say hereafter,
That you are someone, and me someone else.

Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death.

I will soothe you and heal you,
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorns.

Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist.
Pink dragonflies fall from the air
and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter.
Like the smile of a child separated
from his mother’s milk for the very first time.
--from poem Blood and Blossoms

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

inspiration is like static electricity/ i'm rubbing my cloth over here/ on the crystal shaft of poetic allusion/ and over there....you are/ waiting for the charge that leaps the gulf/ may we all be blessed in these magical exchanges