<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567171" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Of Light</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At dawn you leave. The river wears its skin of light.<br>And I traced love’s loss to the origin of light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“I swallow down the goodbyes I won’t get to use.”<br>At grief’s speed she waves from a palanquin of light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My book’s been burned? Send me the ashes, so I can say:<br>I’ve been sent the phoenix in a coffin of light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From History tears learn a slanted understanding<br>of the human face torn by blood’s bulletin of light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was a temporal thought. Well, it has vanished.<br>Will Promethus commit the mortal sin of light?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She said, “My name is icicles coming down from it…”<br>Did I leave it, somewhere, in a margin of light?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I go off alone, as if listening for God,<br>there’s absolutely nothing I can win of light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now everything’s left to the imagination -<br>a djinn has deprived even Aladdin of light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We’ll see Manhattan, a bride in diamonds, one day<br>abashed to remind her sweet man, Brooklyn, of light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“A cheekbone, / A curved piece of brow, / A pale eyelid…”<br>And the dark eye I make out with all within of light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stranger, when the river leans toward the emptiness,<br>abandon, for my darkness, the thick and thin of light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Agha+Shahid+Ali">Agha Shahid Ali</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567171" data-title="Of Light de Agha Shahid Ali" data-description="At dawn you leave. The river wears its skin of light. And I traced love’s loss to the origin of light. “I swallow down the goodbyes I won’t get to use.” At grief’s speed she waves from a palanquin of light. My book’s been burned? Sen..."></div> </div> </div>

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