Thursday, December 14, 2017

Umid Ali writes



FORMS OF A KEEN

Love a grief
Call a sorrow
Give a place from the bottom of your heart
To a pain
If
It encourages you
To happiness!

***
If you want to see the happiness
In the morning
Face the sun

***
Divide the keen,
Halve it,
Dedicate one of them to your ineffective life,
Keep the other one for the happiness.

***
Keep your tears,
Don’t listen to your heart.
One day it becomes
Pearl and diamond…
And a happiness! 

--tr. Asror Allayarov from "The Gate Opened by Angels"

 
The Keening (Lament for a Lost Soul) -- Doug Woods & Colin Powell

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