If there’s but a sadness in your soul, It’s just a light, untroublesome cardboard load. It’s now been made clear, that they’re completely right, Those personages who grin, who so skeptically and darkly grin: Espousals and feasts won’t straighten out the line - Some thing has disappeared, and our sewing tears at the seams.
© Akbar Muhammad. Translation, 2009
(akbarmuhammad.awardspace.co.uk)