A line from Afghanistan
A small living planet you can hold.
Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations.
بشنو این نی چون شکایت میکند / از جداییها حکایت میکند
جلالالدین محمد بلخی
Persian poet and Sufi mystic · 1207–1273
Born in Balkh, in today's Afghanistan
Masnavi, Book I, line 1
Planet-X translation, 2026 · Source (opens the digitised edition in a new tab)