Thursday, June 24, 2010

If My Voice Is Not Reaching You



If my voice is not reaching you
add to it the echo—
echo of ancient epics



And to that—
a princess



And to the princess遥our beauty



And to your beauty—
a lover's heart



And in the lover's heart
a dagger



Afzal Ahmed Syed
translated by Musharraf Ali Farooqi