I Will Place You in My Soul

I do not keep you in my heart,
  Because you will be wounded.
I do not keep you in my eyes,
  Because you will be diminished.
But I will place you in my soul,
  Not in either heart or eyes,
  So that you will be coupled with
  My last breath.

In this love for you,
  No one persists but me.
In the salt marsh,
  No one plants a seed but me.
With both friend and foe,
  I speak ill of you, so that
  No one will love you but me!
_{Shams-e Tabrizi}