“Tanha Tarin Mard e Zaminam” – تنهاترین مرد زمینم

Artist: Ahmad Zahir. Rough Translation: “I’m the loneliest man on earth. I’m like a hermit or a monk. But with you, there’s a musical kind of certainty involved in the loneliness. I feel there’s a reason for the loneliness when you are in the picture. I don’t need anyone else after all. Learn from the bond and the relationship we established during all those night lessons, my love. Be with me and stay with me forever, so that perhaps I know what luxury is and as a result of it I become less of a barbarian. From raw barbarism to luxurious civility. I’m merely a leaf, or a page, grown and written from a tree of sadness in this land of yours. Without you, it will wilt and then dry up and break down and fragment into dirt in the coming autumn and winter. You’re the only one who animates it and sustains it. Continue to glow and shine for me the way you have recently, my love. You’re a reflection and symbol of the City of God itself. Of heaven itself. And you have me, of course, the Eastern reflection and symbol of a kind of fortitude and strength that only the Great Wall of China might have.”

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