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1 " Desire"I have certainlyno faith in miracles, yet I longthat when death comes to take mefrom this great songof a world, it permits me to returnto your door and knock and knockand call out: "If you need someoneto share your anguish, your simplest pain,then let me be the one.If not, let me againembark, this time neverto return, in that final direction,forever. "
― Faiz Ahmad Faiz , The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems
2 " Years have passed since my heart's been anyone's destination,/ and its wounds, in this desolation,/ have lost their sheen--/ Whom can I possibly ask to pour color into them?--from "Two Elegies: 1. Appointments "