Binavi Badakhshani

Ceaptar gur Afganastánach ón 13ú haois ab ea Binavi Badakshani agus gur Súifeach ab ea é féin agus a athair roimhe.

Deineadh uisce díom

Binavi Badakhshani

Deineadh uisce díom
   is chonac mé féin
   im mhearú súl
Deineadh aigéan díom
   chonac mé féin
   im cháithnín cúir
Deonaíodh Meabhraíocht dom
   is chonac nach bhfuil san iomlán
   ach dearúd
Dhúisíos
    is thuigeas go rabhas
   faoi shuan

I became water

Binavi Badakhshani

English version by Peter Lamborn Wilson and Nasrollah Pourjavady. Original Language Persian/Farsi

I became water
     and saw myself
     a mirage
became an ocean
     saw myself a speck
     of foam
gained Awareness
     saw that all is but
     forgetfulness
woke up
     and found myself
     asleep.

   

-- from The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry, Translated by Peter Lamborn Wilson / Translated by Nasrollah Pourjavady