Love
THE SECRET OF THE MOTH
Translated from Uzbek · Original text
So much is said about the moth,They say it hurls itself into the fire!Why such a fate? What aim is thereThat it enters the flame so bravely?!Why is it so in love with burning —What secret is hidden in the essence of burning?!Fleeing from existence, from this open world,Does it find a world in the embrace of fire?!No servant has known the answer to this,Even to the wise this riddle stays closed.But I say: shake off your sleep,And you, too, set your soul alight once in the blaze.I have no rest, I have no will —In the clutches of the flame no endurance remains.A single spark of the thought of YouBurns my soul and my world without mercy.Perhaps Your love is a blaze, by Allah,I do not know — am I Khalil in chains?!My mind is well aware that I burn in the fire,Why am I so humbled before Your flame?!What my tomorrow will be is utterly dark,But today my state is forlorn beyond measure.If I go on living like this, burning day by day —What wonder if I reach the secret of the moth...Akrom MALIKJanuary 19, 2023.
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