بغض نجیب

بغض نجیب

31 October 2007

* Life is Perhaps...

I have come alone,

I have lived alone,

And I am leaving alone.

Together with those who have come alone,

Who have lived alone,

And who are leaving alone.

Some days, I wear a vague smile for those who are with me,

And others I am mourning for those who are not...

What am I hoping for?

Who am I yearning for?

Life is perhaps but a full stop in the middle of a sentence which is short, and sometimes not...

Life is perhaps but a search for those who resemble us, or perhaps it is an urge to emerge with those who do not…


Life is perhaps but a relay race with a finishing line that remains out of reach but earns us experience…

Life is perhaps but a beginning to an end…

Life is perhaps but a journey out of the land of not knowing, across the valley of endeavours, towards the city of emptiness…

Life is perhaps but a...

Words and Photography by Parvaneh Farid

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