O heart, O heart, why are you so full of sorrow
Though you are a ruin, you are a spellbound treasure
Sheikh Galib, Dîvân, the refrain *müseddes* (eight-line stanza poem) "Ey dil ey dil", stanza 1 (Muhsin Kalkışım edition, 1994, pp. 179-181), 18th century.
Language here means the heart.
The poet asks his own heart:
Why are you so full of sorrow?
He answers in the next line:
Even if you are a ruin,
you are a treasure under a spell.
Sorrow does not come from a person's smallness.
It comes from forgetting what he carries.
Treasure is sought in ruined houses.
Whoever finds himself in ruins
should first ask this question.