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The Flower |
O flower! Why do you care for the nightingale’s wounded heart
First you should darn the slits of your own shirt! |
If you long for respect in the rose garden of existence
You should get accustomed to living entangled in thorns! |
The juniper in the garden is free as well as chained to the soil
You should acquire freedom within these constraints! |
With contentment give message of embarrassment to miserliness
Do not remain obliged to dew, you should empty the cup and the bottle! |
It does not befit self respect that being picked from the garden
You should be put in some turban or pinned to some collar! |
The dew disappeared from garden saying to the flower bud
If you love gardener’s oppression, you should create beauty |
If you want to remain unacquainted with autumn
First you should abandon the desire for the beauty’s world |
Look, in this alone is concealed your life’s perfection!
If you should be the decoration of some beauty’s robe! |
Translated by: M.A.K. Khalil |
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