Hawaye Eshq Tu Az Sar

'The air of your love will not leave my head / Whoever came to your door will not leave again' — hawa (air, passion, desire) occupying the head is a specific image: love as an atmospheric condition inside the skull rather than a fact of the heart. Something breathed rather than felt. 'Whoever came to your door will not leave again' generalizes the speaker's condition into a law: your door creates its own gravity.

'At the tryst, that same night we wept together / Did she not say she would not travel without us?' — the promise (she will not go without us) reported in the past tense frames the present without the beloved. Either she broke the promise or the speaker misunderstood. The question 'did she not say?' does not expect an answer; it is the record of a moment that has become evidence.

'Do not drive me from the tavern, cupbearer — give me time / Whoever came at midnight will not leave at dawn' — the tavern as the space that keeps one until morning is a familiar Sufi image. To be driven out before dawn is to be forced into the world before the inner work is done. The speaker asks for more time at midnight, when the promise of no-travel was made.