Everywhere, throughout the world, I am become dishonoured and humiliated
House by house, my dissoluteness, and my profligacy, are manifest grown.
That which I kept closely covered up, concealed within my sleeve,
The people of the world have come, the spectacle of that goblet to behold.
This is no heart at all, that now entertaineth kindness towards me;
But that adamantine stone, towards me, path somewhat softer grown.
That which was the capital stock of life, I renounced entirely;
And the country of happiness and felicity, became farmed to me.
Wherefore, now, should I regret or complain? for I triumphed,
When the marplot became a fugitive, from the door of the beloved.
I appreciate his worth, and I will make myself a sacrifice unto him,
Who, in grief and sorrow, became the sustainer of the helpless, and forlorn.
Unto sleeping fortune many times I cried out with a loud voice;
But it awakened from its slumber, only, upon the last soft, gentle call.
Separation from them is death itself-and man soon breatheth his last;
But the society of the heart’s idols, hath a second existence become.
Though he putteth his heart upon its guard, yet it will not be prudent;
Hence, Khushalis accounted now, among the crazy, and the mad.
(Khoshal Khan Khattak)
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