1. O heart, within you lies many a hidden world
That when its dawn breaks through, the morn seems dim,

2. O heart, within you flame so many suns
Where civilizations rose and nations thrived,

3. O heart, within you lies unnumbered horizons
Where stars shine bright then vanish in a blink,

4. O heart, within you roar so many peaks and vales
Where winds blow wild or summits pierce the sky,

5. O heart, within you springs burst into being
Pouring forth streams that freely, briskly skim,

6. Flowing, they carry a blossoming branch, verdant,
Or a rose whose beauty no feet have trod,

7. Or a bee the current sweeps, swift and heedless
To the seas where it hums beneath the haze,

8. Or a wondrous, warbling bird, now lifeless,
Its eyes still wet with wounds and clotted blood.

9. O heart, you are an astonishing universe, a wonder -
If people are asked of its horizons, they are mum,

10. As though you are the unknown eternity that flummoxed
Reason and around which darkness heaved and swelled.

11. O heart, within you lies many a pleasure and fantasy
And delight whose shadow pain evades,

12. Who sang to your dawn in a voice enchanted, joyous,
Delighted and clear, then faded as the tune dimmed.

13. And how many phantoms did your night behold, restless,
Terrified, crumbling as the stones rained upon them,

14. And how pain's bloody wings, aflame, did flutter
When sorrow and regret burned fierce within.

15. And how the whole world walked your surface
Until it waned and death and oblivion came,

16. And how the days built around you edifices
Of hymns constructed then collapsed as one.

17. Life goes on with its past and present
While the sun, wadis and peaks all fade away,

18. Yet you remain the same - vast, capacious,
No fleeting joy or pain disturb your tide.

19. O heart, how you've embraced life and danced with it,
Twirling with delight, unplagued by ennui.

20. And how you've donned the dusk and dawn's attire,
The train of sunset's gown trailing behind you.

21. And how of dreams you have sewn gowns
The nights have shredded while softly grinning.

22. And how you've braided flowered wreaths
Borne off by tempest's roar and furious scream.

23. And how you've drawn designs unmatched in beauty
By these worlds, dreams and harmonious order -

24. As though they are glimpses of Paradise, brimming
With maidens, then fading, the vision robbed.

25. You taste life and test it and then cast it off,
Seeking a novel life devoid of precedent.

26. You are eternal youth, vitality abounds,
Like nature, knowing neither age nor frailty.