بی‌تو هستم چون زمستان خلق از من در عذاب
با تو هستم چون گلستان خوی من خوی بهار

With you absent, I am like winter; people suffer from me.
With you present, I am like a rose garden; my nature becomes the nature of spring.

(Rumi, Divan, Ghazal 1073)

January 2026