Do you know what it’s like to visit an absent friend?

It feels like a cloud that rains on a thirsty person in the desert

O’ smell of familiarity, I know where you are from

The exchange between connected souls is covert

My head tells my heart not to brew love 

But love won’t allow my heart to let the mind direct 



Ghazal 146

Saadi Shirazi

Translated by : Anahita Ghaffari