“Your life is a sum of counted breaths.With each breath that passesa part of life is lost. That which gives life brings death every moment nearer,and your caravan is led by onewho will not jest with you.”
Abu'l-'Atahiya“Your life is a sum of counted breaths.With each breath that passesa part of life is lost. That which gives life brings death every moment nearer,and your caravan is led by onewho will not jest with you.”
Abu'l-'Atahiya, Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems