Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Love Poem: A Thousand Eyes

A Thousand Eyes

In love,
your lips should be silent.

Inside the heart,
you cook, boil, and burn.

No longer should you have
a single eye-
but you
become
a thousand eyes.

No longer should you have
a single ear-
but you
become
a thousand ears.

-Mushtaq Isfahani

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