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This ghazal is one of Hafez’s most heart-wrenching meditations on separation, memory, and the soul’s exhaustion in love.
Hafez Starts by:
Without the radiance of your face, my day holds no light.
And of my life, nothing remains but the dark night.
Thus begins one of Hafez Shirazi’s most sorrowful laments, a ghazal woven entirely of shadow and absence. Here, love is not the sweet intoxication of union, but the long ache that follows its loss.
The poet speaks from a desolate landscape, where time has collapsed into a single endless night. Yet, beneath the lamentation, there is a strange serenity, the stillness of a soul that has stopped fighting its own pain, and begun to understand it as a kind of prayer.