Wedding Prayer and Meditation

I thought of you for three beautiful nights, would have liked to bring my songs to you in the morning. Tenderly, I string three beautiful nights into song after song. My candles burned down as the morning sees me awake. I burned three beautiful nights leaf by leaf, because the morning didn't invent my songs as gently as you did.

Why do I mourn all the time and always walk in silence? I carry a silent sorrow so heavily with me in my heart. What use is it that I trust the grief that quietly breaks my heart. You can never understand it anymore, and you can't help. You would never understand the suffering that happened to me. Oh, who broke my heart, can't understand it herself.

Alternative Wedding

I listened to the finch in the green Hague, that bewitched me so much. Ah, if I hadn't listened to the bold's merry stroke! He sang so sweetly about love and happiness, about kissing in my ear. There was not a single dying word in the whole play about separation. My heart fell deep in passion. Look what love has made of me! I gave my head to strife and pain. Look what love has made of me! I cry quietly to myself, love paints me in blood, can't be sober, can't be confused. Look what love has made of me!

Sometimes I blow like the wind does, sometimes I dust like a path full of fire, sometimes I flow like the torrent's flood. Look what love has made of me! My skin pale, my eye weeps, my heart fragmented and petrified, experienced and united in pain. Look what love has made of me! Well known as poor Yunus, covered in gangrene from head to toe, I roam far from friend's hand. Look what love has made of me!