Beyond Land and Time

The Green Grass

(Ghāsh)

Translated by Mobarak A. Molla

Death left his body shriveled by the river.

The bright sunlight licked it at mid-day.

The young breeze wafted to repair

The wrinkles that form on earth in the human body.

The waters merrily played to smoothen the skin

But as its time was up.

The body was put in a wooden coffin to go under.

The hells opened its doors at once

But found the bones fully covered in green grass.

The grass ever since teases the world

The fool and the wise alike.