~:*:~ Let the Ascetics Sing of the Garden of Paradise ~:*:~

Let the ascetics sing of the garden of Paradise

We who dwell in the true ecstasy can forget their vase-tamed bouquet.

In our hall of mirrors, the map of the one Face appears
As the sun’s splendor would spangle a world made of dew.
Hidden in this image is also its end,
As peasants’ lives harbor revolt and unthreshed corn sparks with fire.
Hidden in my silence are a
thousand abandoned longings:

My words the darkened oil lamp on a stranger’s unspeaking grave.
Ghalib, the road of change is before you always:
The only line stitching this world’s scattered parts

Author :Ghalib Mirza Asadullah Khan