Afghanistan افغانستان

The Poet

Last night I said to the candle of my desolate house
“Your hair gets combed by the wings of the moth

In the world I am like the lamp of the wilderness’ tulip
I am neither in an assembly’s lot, nor in a house’ fortune

Since a long time I am also burning my breath like you
Though I am circling the flame no moth has hit its wing

Many an effulgence is crammed in my life of unfulfilled desires
Not a single loving heart rises in this assembly

From where have you acquired this world-illuminating fire?
You have infused the love of Kalâm in the poor insect” !

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