UGLINESS OF THE DAY

With my eyelids closed
Sometimes I look
At the glaring face
                           of the Sun:

Thus
The ugliness of the day
Is drowned
In fire and blood,
And in my heart
                        breaks
The cold of dark sorrows.

Mahmud Kianush

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