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Longing - a short poem
This little poem by the famous Turk poet Aziz Nesin was left on Jahane Rumi by Sherry - I love it so much that I am re-posting it here -
You made me wait so long, so long that
I got used to missing you
You came back after a long time
I now love longing for you more
than I love you
(translated by Suleyman Fatih Akgul)
October 15th, 2007 at 2:57 am
awesome!
reminded me of Pablo Neruda’s poem.
posting here first four lines of his poem
I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You
I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you
My heart moves from cold to fire.
October 15th, 2007 at 8:01 am
An interesting insight into the roller coaster that human emotions often can be…
October 15th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Simply heartrending! It wrenches out your very soul with that last line: “I now love longing for you more
than I love you”
What a pity that I can read but the translation ; though I can imagine the glory of the original!
October 21st, 2007 at 1:45 pm
It’s like a celebration of the paradoxical joy of pain.
“Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?” - (The Prophet) Kahlil Gibran
June 26th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Short and beautiful. Good translation as well.