I am a pagan and a worshiper of love: the creed (of Muslims) I do not need; <br />Every vein of mine has become taunt like a wire, <br />the (Brahman's) girdle I do not need. <br />Leave from my bedside, you ignorant physician! <br />The only cure for the patient of love is the sight of his beloved - <br />other than this no medicine does he need. <br />If there be no pilot in our boat, let there be none: <br />We have god in our midst: the sea we do not need. <br />The people of the world say that Khusrau worships idols. <br />So he does, so he does; the people he does not need, <br />the world he does not need.<br /><br />Amir Khusro<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/persian-poem/
