“…The heavens could not bear my debt
And wrote me as a madman in my fate.
But lovers bled their hearts
And on the face of the Beloved
Did a beauty spot create.
The fire that burns
In the flame of the lamp
Is not the fire;
It burns in the essence of
The moth and consumes him entire…”
―
And wrote me as a madman in my fate.
But lovers bled their hearts
And on the face of the Beloved
Did a beauty spot create.
The fire that burns
In the flame of the lamp
Is not the fire;
It burns in the essence of
The moth and consumes him entire…”
―
Sahil’s 2025 Year in Books
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