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Poetas da Índia

DESIRE

(tr. Agha Shahid Ali)

I have certainly
no faith in miracles, yet I long
that when death comes to take me
from this great song
of a world, it permits me to return
to your door and knock
and knock
and call out: "If you need someone

to share your anguish, your simplest pain,
then let me be the one.
If not, let me again

embark, this time never
to return, in that final direction,
forever."



Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1910-1984)