Gaurav Shah

Persian Love Poem

 

I would have written one already had not
your tresses unclasped and descended the night,

had the moon appeared once tonight,
or, like Khayyam, I had the habit of wine.

I would have written one already if only
we didn't speak such different languages.

 

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