all those piled up thoughts
filling my brain
with hopes and fears

pour into my throat
whatever has been
my share of life

don’t make me wait forever
like a knocker on a door
with hopes and fears

these moments i feel
i’ve lost all my colors
because of hopes and fears

you are forever
my shining sun and
i am like this poem
restless with hopes and fears

Translation by Nader Khalili
“Rumi, Fountain of Fire”; Cal-Earth Press, 1995