Beholding your loveliness maddened me with longing. <br /> How cruel you left me languishing with this desire ! <br /> <br /> Did you enter my bower of love just to put a spell <br /> On my senses, taste my bloom and leave me in blight ? <br /> <br /> Faithless one! Your furtive look pierced my soul; <br /> And my virgin, loving heart fluttered like a wounded bird. <br /> <br /> Being simple, and trusting faith, I offered all my love. <br /> It's you who played me false, and left me desolate. <br /> <br /> For all my faith and dignity, you chose to slander me, <br /> Disgrace me and toss me out, with a taunt as your gift. <br /> <br /> O how you broke my heart, staying away displeased, <br /> Leaving me to rue my fate, all consumed with longing ! <br /> <br /> Beloved, your letter - the parting gift - bristled with taunts. <br /> It was holding with your hands the mortal cup to my lips ! <br /> <br /> You led me to my grave, with a fitting deathly pallor, <br /> Like a blighted jessamine bush, burnt with the fire of love. <br /> <br /> Majoor, lying far away, in hiding as it were, <br /> Says, 'dear friend, how can you leave, <br /> Forgetting all your vows ?'<br /><br />Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/beholding-your-loveliness-maddened-me-with-longing/
