That Eternal Flame_Farrukh Ahmad

That Eternal Flame

Farrukh Ahmad

 I wake up with the same dream that made me asleep;

A dream that brings despair and assurance as well,

I am tied to that dream’s complex emotions

And find out my way through its momentary flash.

Though it’s a small glow-worm in that endless darkness

And goes out often, yet I know that love, my beacon-light,

Is the only reality in this afflicting darkness?

Every –burning in my life’s distant dark horizon.

That eternal flame! I feel in my whole being

That light’s manifold manifestations;

Its soft warmth creates in the heart’s music

A dream-world full of nightly wonder.

All the river would have died, all heavenly glow-worms collapsed

If likewise they have not emitted light,

Translat by Abdur Rashid Khan