Ruba'i IV

by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi

*handwritten Urdu text by the author, early 1980's*



I'm barbed wire; I could become
a leaf of gold
I'm dry pasture; I could become
flowing eyes.


I would be immortal
if I could kiss
that faint scar of an old wound
on your knee.






[;xaar-e aahan huu;N barang-e zar ho jaa))uu;N]
translated by the author