At Night

Ghazal

What is this darkness? What laws do govern at night?

Your silently slipping memories, into miseries turn, at night

Lovers, whose land lost its moon in the clouds of time-

Why should their hearts not -for light- burn at night?

"Lord, Tear apart my darkness before it tears me apart!"

An infidel when heard, lit up a dervish's cavern at night

It weaves a garland of stars around the crescent 

What art - to deceive reason - does my heart learn at night!

"Treasures are hidden in ruins." So are the secrets in silence.

Thus, to decipher your silence, I entered into a sojourn at night

Beholding broken connections and unheard calls in a deaf vale

An old man plans to sell pigeons, on his return, at