True love isn’t simple to fall in and out easily
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True love isn’t simple to fall in and out easily,
gripping at its throat, you must be a firm believer,
to seek, to see, to find, to grasp, to lose willingly.
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Old men fear fragility, young men their frequency,
young women do it all, old women do it quicker.
True love isn’t simple to fall in and out easily.
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Look at the sky, see its stars shining so dashingly
none of it matters if the lovers do not see it glitter,
all to praise, witness, grasp, and lose willingly.
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I’ve done it once, and I shall do it again greedily,
To seek, to see, to find, to grasp, and to trigger
the heart of me. True love doesn’t come so easily.
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It conquers the castles of the heart dreamingly,
its caravan arrives fast, but you will remain a slow figure.
The feeling is like a waterfall, moving and so heavenly.
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To fall for one is to have no religion but to peacefully
give the heart to love itself, a truth at times so bitter,
true love isn’t simple to taste in and out this easily
to seek the truth is the winner, and the other, a quitter.
About the Creator
Parwana Fayyaz
I am an Afghan writer. Forty Names, my first collection of poetry, was published in 2021 and named a New Statesman Book of the Year and a White Review Book of the Year. I also translate both poetry and fiction from Persian into English.
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