Senility

(Translation by Muhammad Salim-ur-Rahman)

I am a park

Come, sit here and laugh

Bask in the sun

and while your day away

among my velvet green fields

the silver trees,

the plentiful flowerbeds

and bracing arbours.

And when the icy

evening lowers,

go home, selfish

citizens, go home.

I will cope all night,

all by myself,

with the falling snow.