Priere
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This prayerful piece uses the Sufi trope of referring to God as one’s own heart. In this poem, the poet is experiencing the pain of separation from the divine, which manifests in a wordless crying out of loving to God. Similar perhaps to how someone might feel being far from their beloved, there is a heartache and sense of absence throughout the poem. Some of these phrases, like ‘my sunken light’ aren’t really going to make sense in an English translation. By sunken light, he means that God is the night and it is broken, like his heart, which is equally broken. The moon, and all celestial references, are always pointing to the divine.