Poetry

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Faryod ki umri man mukammal meshud

Charkhi falakam ba dasti modar meshud

Modar merisht tanobi umra medod

Davroni guzashta boz az sar meshud

Help, my life has come to an end

If the wheel of fortune were in mother's hands

My mother would weave my life together again

And the times gone past would start again.

Faryod ki kori nosazo kard falak

Farzand az modari u judo kard

Guftam biravam peshi falak girya kunam

Az giryai man du gusha kard dogh falak

Help, the destiny has been merciless

It has taken the mother away from her child

I said: I will cry to the sky (the destiny)

But the sky (the destiny) did not hear me.

Avval ki navishtani qalamro guyam

In bakhti siyohi puralamro guyam

In bakhti siyohi puralam guftan nashud

Hayron monam kadom alamro guyam

Before I die and know my destiny

I shall tell this painful bad fortune

But this painful bad fortune is too hard to tell

I remain speechless, which pain shall I tell?