All things remind me of you
All things remind me of you,
The rain and the sun,
The treads of the stairs
I came up a bride, long ago,
The pebbles in the paths,
and the streets of many cities,
The steps in your beautiful gardens,
Each flower and rose and tree.
I myself remind me of you,
For your words and your looks
Catch me up in a thousand ways,
Homely, tender ways of daily
Life lived long together.
Like a planet I revolve in my orbit
Around and around and around,
And my centre is my boundless grief,
My insatiable longing for you,
My love that flames all my breast.
9 December 1957
İRuhiyyih Rabbani
