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'Will it last? asks K. 'Will it last, this feeling of love between us?'
'This won't last. Not in this way,' I reply.
'But' if something like it lasts, we should be happy.'

Last night, loose memories of you returned-
As spring steaks into a wilderness,
As the morning breeze blows gently into a desert
As relief comes to a sick man for no reason.

It's nobody's fault that our hearts
work in their little strange ways.
It's nobody's fault that we fall for
one another.
It's nobody's fault that we never
learn.
So, save your apology, my dear.
Save it for later days. Save it for better days.

-Noor Iskandar

I'm a kafir, a pagan, I worship love,
I have no need of Islam.
Ladies wear their sacred thread,
I have no need of that, either.
I'm drunk on the nectar of love.
He sings
In my blood: each vein a thread of my faith.

- Amir Khusro

Again and again, even though
we know love's landscape
And the little churchyard with is
lamenting names
And the terrible reticent gorge in
which the others end:
Again and again the two of us
walk out together
Under the ancient trees, lay
ourselves down again and again
Among the flowers, and look up
into the sky.

In moments of rare intimacy two people are of one mind and one body, speaking only in thoughts, brilliantly aware of each other, whether they stand arm in arm or apart in a crowded room.

If I am not myself
Who will be for me
And of I am not for others
What am I?
And if not now, when?