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Sunday, October 30, 2011 8:41:03 AM

This is the translation of Pashto language Poet Ghani Khan's poem.

In the summer noon,
Like a winter night,
A silence,
A hush prevails.
The doves’ cooing, A meditative still;
Time slackens,
Planted in stirrups.
The world heeds its heart,
Hearing judgment on death and life.
A smile imbues the air Like someone hears the Rabab in sleep.
And I alone
Lost in thought
Set out in search
Of my longing –
A lost, Helpless
Sojourner
Wandering
Lying on the ground,
I tread the sky.
I too have lent my heart an ear, To find some purpose or scheme to life;
Some cause for pain and death,
And the grain of my conscious in eternity.
Lost in the ocean
Of how and why;
Wine in the cup And in the wine,
In the red book,
From the mosque’s niche,
For death and life
I seek a link.
In mute Silence
I
Seek the sitar’s plucking
And rhythm’s rules;
In surrounding colors
And blue pigeons I seek the answer to my life.
I’m mad, I truly am –
I seek Plato in wine;
When I turn my gaze to myself,
Death,
Nothingness Is all I see.
I’m mad, I’m mad indeed;
I seek life in death’s gaze.
In the summer noon,
Like a winter night,
A silence, A hush prevails.
Far away
A grain
Of light
A star?
Or a distant desert fire Tells me
In tiny sparkles –
The hill is steep
But a track leads over the top.
What
If life Is a lost
Conscious
Moment –
It has a lasting
Lover.
My heart, are you fooling yourself or me? How easily you ease out of this hassle!
O, my deceptive heart,
How you engross and please me,
But I will not hear you,
Or I’ll be lost,
And really Go mad;
Drown
In black waters of anguish
Where I’m still afloat;
Lose myself in dark fears.
Here I burn in my own flames Turning to dust in life,
Sinking in my own blood.
In the summer noon,
Like a winter night,
A silence,
A hush prevails. Far away
A grain
Of light
A star, or a distant desert fire
Tells me in tiny sparkles –
The hill is steep, but a track leads over the top. What if life is a lost conscious moment –
It has a lasting lover.

Meena sar ke sa asana ghundi kh'kari