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WHILING AWAY TIME ON A DARK, MOONLESS NIGHT...
It will be a moonless night
Tonight
And my beloved too is out of sight
Not right
How am I going to while away
The stretching moments that elongate
Like a leech, sucking my liver and heart
I think I will have to go to the tavern
And share an evening with my Saqi*
And blame nobody or say a word
About my loneliness thwarted by
Drinks of wisdom and the deep fountains
Of comforting understanding dipped in a healing gaze
Of utmost soothing sweetness...
So this evening which threatens me
Needs to be killed with the help of drinks
And the welcoming doors of my Saqi's tavern.
