from: Agha Shahid Ali - Farewell

[bohemiabythesea]

from:
Agha Shahid Ali
Farewell

(...)
If only somehow you could have been mine, what wouldn't
          have happened in this world?
I'm everything you lost. You won't forgive me.
My memory keeps getting in the way of your history.
There is nothing to forgive. You won't forgive me.
I hid my pain even from myself, I revealed my pain only to
          myself.
There is everything to forgive. You can't forgive me.
If only somehow you could have been mine,
what would not have been possible in the world?

(from: Agha Shahid Ali, The Country Without a Post Office, New York: Norton, 1998.)