Gushes to the lips, as an orison, a wish of mine As does the candle, Allah, may so my life shine! May l conduce to the world free of ignorance! May every place gets lightened with my brilliance! So much l subserve to my nation’s prosperity, As much as a flower does to its bed’s…
These tarnished rays, this night-smudged lightThis is not that Dawn for which, ravished with freedom,We had set out in sheer longing,So sure that somewhere in its desert the sky harbouredA final haven for the stars, and we would find it.We had no doubt that night’s vagrant wave would stray towards the shore,That the heart rocked…
Regret with a cold gush of fright arrives: Autumn, suddenly, with all its might arrives! Not often: but every-time it rains all night; At dawn, a letter (you could never write) arrives. You may order every clock to turn back on Time But the Tomorrow, however, despite arrives. At last, the wait will be over…
I donโt dream aboutthe divine spirits of revolutionabout ghosts in the shapesof struggles, protestsand fightsblood and bombs. I donโt dream abouta place whererain is born to weave the rainbowswhere from there is no exileno head is bowedno sinsno sorrow. where every griefeach sufferingin silencemake up slogans. Azadi. Azadi. Azadi I donโt dream aboutan isolated, lonely…
Ends of February “But, I’ve locked the door,โ mothers shout. “This heat is a slitacross the skin!” They tie their hair up in a bun and talk about womenwho brought them flowers day out and day in. In spring, you and I squat on the terrace and dig away in silence.At our heel sticks the…
words said by a maddened loverwho couldn’t deal with all thesadness that comes alongwith loving me your arms are sad, she says, your legs are sad, yours hips are sad. your eyes, of course.the dirt in your elbows โ yourbelly-button reeks of sadness;your sighs are full of despair.you’re made of melancholy โ a million glum things collectedto form…
Have you ever read somethingthat worked as a stitchon an open wound? The words that feel likethe ointment on the painful limbor the plaster on a broken bone?Words you read and feel stress-free or give relief to a grieving heart?Words that tranquilize youlike a childโs first smile?Words that soothe the roiling soul?Words working like a…