Lost Traces
  
	
						Saleem Rana 
  
			
			None shall trace all the shadows 
of my face 
as it looked upon the world. 
No one shall know the verses 
I have omitted, 
nor the dreams I had last night, 
nor all the loves who never knew of my passion, 
nor whether it has been given to me 
to catch a glimpse of paradise 
in a reverie. 
Even I forget my face observed 
in the looking-glass of my childhood. 
		   
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