“Healing Prayer for His
Messiah”
Stranger!
Whenever you are alone in life
And pain surpasses its limit.
Your eyes,
Withdrawn,
Start to weep.
At that moment,
Some stranger,
To your loneliness
Becomes a soft circle of moonlight:
Becomes your protector
To heal your wounds,
To wipe your eyes.
The deliverer to your pain.
Parveen Shakir (24 November 1952 - 26 December 1994)
Translated from the Urdu by M.S. Alverston, 02/11/11.
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