“Kash Bodam Lala” – کاش بودم لاله

Artist: Ahmad Zahir. Rough Translation: “Only if I were a rose, so that I would stand out enough to be sought in this desert and wasteland. Only if the pain and the frustration of the times could be manifested and made evident through this voice and this free self-expression. Only if I were a book or a collection of writings, an anthology, thrown into some hidden and silent corner where no one can find me and come face-to-face with me or see me, except for those who truly know and feel and understand. Only if I were the headline and status symbol of our day and age, so that society wouldn’t look towards me with such ignorance and narrow-mindedness.”

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