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  1. Then be pitiless you whom I could not save –
    Send your cries to me, if only in this way:
    I've found a prisoner's letters to a lover –
    One begins: "These words may never reach you."
    Another ends: "The skin dissolves in dew
    without your touch." And I want to answer:
    I want to live forever. What else can I say?
    It rains as I write this. Mad heart, be brave.

    -Agha Shahid Ali
    #everynightapoem #fragment

  2. I’ve found a prisoner’s letters to a lover—
    One begins: ”These words may never reach you.”
    Another ends: ”The skin dissolves in dew
    without your touch.” And I want to answer:
    I want to live forever. What else can I say?
    It rains as I write this. Mad heart, be brave.

    -Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001),
    from The Country Without a Post Office
    #everynightapoem #fragment #poetry