You Are Not Present, Yet Here And There We Are Two Wet, Soaked Lovers Poem by Peshawa Kakayi

You are not present, yet here and there we are two wet, soaked lovers

Peshawa kakayi
Translated by: Daliya Rauf
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You are not here, yet; in pigeons cooing you sing your blues for me.
I am not there, yet; under the thin wings of bats
I sing melancholic melodies for you.
You are not here, yet; in the garden you harvest flowers
And whisper to the pigeons to carry them to me!
I am not there, yet; together with bat in a poem,
I have come to roost under your house eaves,
to listen to your laments.
You are not here, I am not there,
Yet; we are two grieving lovers,
Two inseparable wet wings,
That cannot fly without each other.

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2008

Peshawa kakayi
Translated by: Daliya Rauf