Come, O heart, tell me what has become of you; while you were flourishing, why were you laid waste by love?
Gel ahî gönül n'oldı hâlün bir bana söyle / Sen ma'mûr iken 'ışk ile vîrân niçün oldun
Kaygusuz Abdal, ghazal, Abdurrahman Güzel, Şehzâde Alaâddin Gaybî Kaygusuz Abdâl Külliyatı, Ankara: TDK, 2022 (as cited in Kurtoğlu and Söylemez 2025: G, 365/160, 1270).
Kaygusuz asks his heart.
Like a friend sitting beside it.
What happened to you?
While you were flourishing,
why did love lay you waste?
He seems not to expect an answer.
He knows it.
A flourishing heart
is full of its own belongings.
When love comes in, room opens,
walls come down.
The one who weeps over the ruins
and the one who rests there
are the same heart.