The Red and the Green

O Physician, come back! my life is ebbing away.
Compelled by love, I dance, I dance.

This love has set up camp inside me.
It is I, who filled the cup with this poison and drank it.
Come back right away, else, I will surely die.
Compelled by love, I dance, I dance.

The sun has set, its glow remains.
Grant me a sight of you again! I would die for it!
What a mistake I made, not going with you.
Compelled by love I dance, I dance.

Mother do not bar me from this love.
Whoever turns back unloaded boats that have left?
How foolish I was, not going with the boatman.
Compelled by love I dance, I dance.

Peacocks sing in the groves of love.
My beautiful beloved is my Ka’ba, my Qibla.
He injured me, then turned away.
Compelled by love I dance, I dance.

Bullhe Shah, I sit at Inayat's door,
He clothed me in robes of green and red.
When I stamped my heel, I found him.
Compelled by love I dance, I dance.

--Raza's translation.

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Let us go the land of the blind, love
where no-one knows anybody
Your footsteps mixed with mine
my green desire mingled with your blood

It is bitter, it is sweet
What type of poison is this
that you slip to me with black hands?

Sway and glide and fall
in the circle of my being
Until neither you nor the fire remain

Let your hair down for me
And float and turn and spin
Until nothing exists finally,
but the red and the green