There was a heart that burnt out: light <br />Light O god, O god light <br /> <br />Flower, perfume, stars, breeze: light <br />These are your names, no matter how we shape you <br /> <br />When afternoon rose on the evening's horizon <br />Who was it in my heart who said: light <br /> <br />Now there is no point in adorning the stars <br />The season of meeting him is gone: light <br /> <br />Dawn broke on a dream in which <br />I wrote simply by looking: light <br /> <br />The two curses we are trapped between: <br />How we live in darkness, how we imagine: light <br /> <br />[Translated by Nukhbah Langah and Lavinia Greenlaw]<br /><br />Noshi Gilani<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/there-was-a-heart-that-burnt-out-light/
