After-Orts #88

Dec 27, 2022

May 2023 bring us
before it has flown
What we would have wished for
had we only known.
-- Garrison Keillor

A Fancied Dot

by Mahmud Shabistari (1288-1340)

The past has flown away,
the coming month and year do not exist;
Ours only is the present’s tiny point.

Time is but a fancied dot ever moving on
which you have called a flowing river stream.

I am alone in a wide desert,
listening to the echo of strange noises.