I might love once and until my death, I can be loved till the end of my life.

Sanobar Mehmon is a poetess hailing from Bukhara region of Central Asian country Uzbekistan

Sanobar Mekhmonova, born on January 6, 1978 in the village Chorzona, Jondor district, Bukhara region of Uzbekistan, graduated from Uzbekistan State University of World Languages. In 2003, she also graduated from the Higher Literary Course organized by the Writers’ Union of Uzbekistan. She is winner of the high place of the traditional Zomin seminar of young artists (1999), and member of the Union of Writers of Uzbekistan. She writes poetry with pen name Sanobar Mehmon. Her published poetry books in native language include “Yashil ibodatlar”, “Yashil”, and “Hayyomona xo‘rsiniqlar. In 2016, her poems were also published in the anthology “XXI Century World Literature”. Her poems were published in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkey, Russia, India, Kenya, America, and many other countries. Her poems were again published in the international anthology “Flashmab” in 2022.

CLOSE MY SOUL WITH LOVE

I might love once and until my death,

I can be loved till the end of my life.

I went out of my way to follow you,

Then follow you without permission, I thus.

 

Whatever I lost, then they returned to me,

I have lost everything as soon as saw you.

I hate you standing on the Earth and ground

But my love from those heavens is true.

 

Don’t blame me, please, that’s it, and enough,

The stones I threw at me, that’s all.

Please, keep safe my eyes in your ones,

Those are my tears in yours after all.

 

You made me feel sorry, oh, you dear loves,

It’s yours. Take my good-natured soul.

Maybe it can be the last day, tomorrow,

Death will say the last word to everyone, all.

 

Those dedicating their lives to love,

Those seeing this Love for a moment are right.

I love you so much from those heavens,

But I hate you standing on this earth, ground.

I love you standing in the skies.

 

I won’t die if you close my soul with love,

If you find some wisdom from this love, won’t die.

I will die but at the time of my death,

If you come and kiss my eyes, I won’t die!!!

 

If you get drunk of this rosy feelings,

When you come to my feet as low as ground.

When you come determining to live on for me,

I will not die if you fill my heart like soul…!

IF THE HEAVENS

If the heavens call you to their destinies,

If the breezes call you to their singings.

If the girls call you to their parties,

If you don’t go, stay in my eyes, won’t die…!

 

Life is passing with its summers and winters,

“How are you?” ask my feelings, how I am.

There is heat inside me hotter than fires,

If you find some rest in it, I won’t die.

 

My tears have been running for thousands of years,

Maybe I went insane because of ghosts, evils.

LOVE ME, LOVE ME AGAIN, LOVE ME ONCE MORE,

Then let me go for millennium, won’t die.

 

I cannot decide even, let me go,

If I say a word then, let me go to words.

I should come to myself, let me go to me,

If you take my soul, then I will not die…!

 

I won’t die if you close my soul with love,

If you find some wisdom from this love, won’t die.

I will die but at the time of my death,

If you come and kiss my eyes, I won’t die!!!

Poetry translated by Maftuna Chilmurzaeva

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