I ASKED MY LOVE
I asked my love: "Why do you make yourself so beautiful?"
"To please myself.
I am the eye, the mirror, and the loveliness;
The loved one and the lover and the love."
From the Persian of Abu-Said (978-1062).
A REQUEST
When I am cold and undesirous and my lids lie dead,
Come to watch by the body that loved you and say:
This is