And the sky, the road, the glass of wine? The sky is a shirt wet with tears, the road a vein about to break, and the glass of wine a mirror in which the sky, the road, the world keep changing. Before You Came by Faiz Ahmed Faiz Translated by Agha Shahid Ali
This cat always hangs out on a dock in the afternoon waiting to catch the last rays of winter sun. Occasionally it’ll come over and let me give it a head scratch, but today it was perfectly happy to stretch out in the last rays of sun and look at me, when it felt so [...]
In one of those droplets, I am looking back at you.