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What Fire Doesn't Burn?

What fire doesn't burn?
What passion doesn't waste?
What desire still persists
when you have known its taste?

What can bind the roving eye,
Pull the riddle-knot apart?
Who can teach me to transfigure
the sultan in my heart?


12 August 2024
Copyright © | Year Posted 2024

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