A Thousand Eyes

In love,
your lips should be silent.

Inside the heart,
you cook, boil, and burn.

No longer should you have
a single eye -
but you
become
a thousand eyes.

No longer should you have
a single ear-
but you become
a thousand ears.

-Mushtaq Isfahani in 'Love's Alchemy: Poems from the Sufi Tradition' Translated and edited by David and Sabrineh Fideler.