IF YOU ARE IN LOVE WITH LOVE
If you are in love with Love, you become a true fellow.
You become a cure for people's sorrow.
If you are in love with the worldly, you are an addict.
How can you attain the secret in meaning?
World is a ramshackle palace, and you are its prince.
You ever so much crave the worthless things.
Worldly desires are not honey but poison.
You ever so much dunk your finger in bane.
Like a wingless bird, you are stuck in the wilderness.
How will you reach the winged birds?
To walk on this road, you need a staff from the mystics.
So you can lean against it, if you lose your balance.
These words of Yunus are for the beautiful ones.
If you become a Lover, you will wake up and open your eyes.
English version by
İsmail Ulusakarya