St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church

Ask no more about separation
Somehow I lived through its night
The heart learned to console itself
life returned to its routines

In the festival of memory
you again were loveliness
lit up by beauty
The grief of the moon was extinguished
we were again together in the night

When I remember you
the morning is essence it is perfume it's musk
And the night
when I kindle our sorrow
is longing caught in itself

The heart as such
had settled every doubt
when I went to tell her we must part
But on seeing her
the lips spoke love's unrehearsed words
and everything changed everything changed

It was the final night Faiz
What happened to those who'd started out with you?
When did the morning breeze abandon you
and where on those last miles
the dawn?

Faiz Ahmed Faiz