پنداشتم همیشه گله
Pendashotam Hamisha Gule
“I Thought You Always a Flower”
Lyrics
Lyrics updated · July 2026English Translation
I thought you were always the flower of my heart My love, my hope, my sweetheart
I thought that after loneliness and silence Whatever remains of life would be in my embrace
I thought your gaze was the messenger of affection My longing, my joy, my goblet
Transliteration
Pendashotam hamesha gule khatere manee Ishqe manee, omide manee, dilbare manee
Pendashotam ke az paye tanhaye o sokoot Az omr aanche mandah baja dar bare manee
Pendashotam negahe tu payke mohabat ast Shawqe manee, neshate manee, saghare manee
متن اصلی
پنداشتم هميشه گل خاطر منی عشق منی، اميد منی، دلبر منی
پنداشتم که از پی تنهايی و سکوت از عمر آنچه مانده بجا در بر منی
پنداشتم نگاه تو پيک محبت است شوق منی، نشاط منی، ساغر منی
I thought you were always the flower of my heart — the song of a belief that turned out to be wrong. The inventory of what was thought: love, hope, sweetheart, gaze as messenger of affection.
About This Recording
Pendashotam — 'I thought' — is the grammatical center of this song, the past tense of belief. Everything listed was held as truth: that she was the flower of his heart, that the remaining life would be in his embrace, that her gaze carried the message of genuine affection.
The past tense does the work that argument cannot: by listing what was believed, the song implies without stating it that those beliefs were wrong. The inventory of 'my love, my hope, my sweetheart' and 'my longing, my joy, my goblet' accumulates the emotional architecture of a relationship; the past tense puts it all in the category of things that did not hold.
This kind of retrospective inventory — what I thought, what turned out to be true — is a recurring structure in love poetry across cultures and traditions. What distinguishes the ghazal mode is that the speaker rarely explains what went wrong or assigns blame. The loss is reported; its cause is not.
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