Do Not Go lyrics
by Rumi
I hear you intend to leave me, I hear
You have a new friend, that you call him, "dear"
How could you wound your constant lover so
And threaten this estrangement? Please don't go,
O moon for whom the very heavens shake
What betrayal is this? How can you take
The promise we exchanged so lightly now
And fob me off with some insincere vow?
O you who command paradise and hell
You whose eyes weave heaven's dizzy spell
How could you mix this poison in the sweet
How could a lover turn to such deceit?
My soul's an open furnace for your flame
Yet you leave it darkened, O the shame
Of being abandoned. Lover, do not go
Leave the moon of my night still aglow
Your leaving is the drought, my lips are dry
The only moisture, wells up in my eye.