Rubaiyat

Bahjat Abbas
2006 / 12 / 16

1
My friend, you complain from the vicissitudes of time,
And you forgot the night and darkness inside your body.
It is the seed that gives nothing but that within it.
It is the soul of the root and stem and the origin of the branches.

2
If it were with genes that have ebb and flow,
Expect fruits with bitter taste in your mouth.
Is darkness a light, and abasement
enlightened intellect? look with the eye of intelligence.

3
With Our hands we made a sad world.
We raised ignorance and illusions as terrorized flags.
And we allowed the mind to seek guidance of suspicious ideas.
Thus, we planted death and hatred in a fruitful land.

4
In vain you call for reform when the soul is sick,
In vain you look for an ego residing in the bottom.
When you run after unfruitful dreams and hopes,
You harvest the wind and reap nothing but defeat.

5
Do you blame the cruel fate in harvesting innocent souls
And it is inside us which born the sin?
Some of you hate others, the jealousy of cretin soul.
Do you hope to have affluence in the remnants of dunghills?

6
Why the distress and sorrow and weeping?
We know nothing but some of the secrets of life.
The mind is unable and the intellect went astray in this darkness.
So leave thinking aside, it is a killer.

7
It is a pity to think that the soul will perish.
It is energy which knows nothing but eternity,
And it is the bird rejoicing singing in the spaces.
It has destroyed its chains from a body that was a prison

8
O, my friend, you are banished and the den rats
Become lairs’ lions feeding on hawks.
If there is no choice but to live in such an evil world,
Take the core and throw all shells away.

9
Leave illusions running like phantoms.
Any illusion you acquire, leaves scars in the mind.
The stars are bewildered and the world is deceiving.
Why then cry the misfortune as you babble in condemnation?

10
Your world became a pyramid inverted upside down,
Where the top became the bottom and the bottom the top.
If you can’t change it wholly or partly,
Why do you let stress assassinate reason?





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