Written [bad word] Edited by Deepak Chopra
Read by Madonna

From Album
Gift Of Love - Music inspired by The Love Poems [bad word] 
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"Подарок Любви" - альбом, собравший знаменитостей, декламирующих поэзию Руми  (поэт 13-го столетия и основатель Ордена Кружащих Дервишей, Суфизм), сопровождаемый спокойными аранжировками композиторов Адам Plack и Yaron Fuchs. 

In the 13th century Persian [bad word] (named after the city where he [bad word] works of mysticism and desire that inspired countless people in his own time and throughout the centuries. His poems expressed the deepest longings of the human heart for its beloved, for that transcendent intimacy which is the source of the divine.
Deepak ChopraContemporary spiritualist Deepak Chopra got inspired [bad word] s Love Poems and asked several celebrities to read them to music. Among them are Demi Moore, Goldie Hawn, Martin Sheen, Debra Winger and of course Madonna. Madonna choose the poem Bittersweet.
Devoted Madonnafan Barney Medunic also used an acapella version of the track for his great (unofficial) remix Whirling and Dancing, which was very popular on Napster.
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My heart is burning with love
All can see this flame
My heart is pulsing with passion
like waves on an ocean

My friends have [bad word] strangers
and I’m surrounded by enemies
But I’m free as the wind
no longer hurt by those who reproach me

I’m at home wherever I am
And in the room of lovers
I can see with closed eyes
the beauty that dances

Behind the veils
intoxicated with love
I too dance the rhythm
of this moving world
I have lost my senses
in my world of lovers
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Lyrics: 

In my hallucination
I saw my Beloved's flower garden
In my vertigo
In my dizziness
In my [bad word] haze
Whirling and dancing like a spinning wheel

I saw myself as the source of existence
I was there in the beginning
And I was the Spirit of Love
Now I am sober 
There is only the hangover
And the memory of love
And only the sorrow
I yearn for happiness
I ask for help
I want mercy

And my Love says
"Look at me and hear me
Because I am here just with that"

I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I [bad word] all this way eager for you
Without shoes or shawl

I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you

Oh the sweet bitterness
I will soothe you and heal you
I will bring you roses
I too have been covered with thorns