Closed Circuit
This is the season of oblivion.
My heart has been released
into the closed circuit of sorrow.One must forget the spring-time.
One must remain deaf and blind
under the invasion of repetitive pulsations.One must flee
stage by stage,
hand in hand with the wind,
to the remotest of the deserts.This is the season of oblivion.
Forget that they have closed windows to the sky,
and that there is no way to beyond the frontiers of horizon.This is the season of oblivion.
Forget that you are rooted in another land
and that, on the painting of spring-time on the wall,
no green leaf can be seen.This is a quagmire.
The air is saturated with the stench of corpses.
This is the festival
of the discovery of the tombs,
each many thousands of years old.Darkness is ravaging.
Behold the dance of the vultures.
It is not the darkness that frightens me;
it is those who believe in darkness.And yet,
I do not fear those who believe in darkness
so much as I fear
those whose brains have been eaten empty
by the canker of inquisition.Is it possible
to take refuge in another land
but in the season of oblivion?My heart has been released
into the closed circuit of sorrow.
Translated by Lotfali Khonji
Page(s) 270-271
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