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Omar Khayyam — My Mother’s Gift
The Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyam
“Awake! For Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stars into Flight, and Lo!
The Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan’s Turret in a Noose of Light.”
Every morning of my young life, my mother awakened me to Omar’s words.
Back then, I dreaded that sound — her soft voice breaking the spell of sleep, reciting those mysterious lines before the day had even begun. I didn’t yet understand what she was really saying.
But time has its way of opening closed hearts.
Now, I would give tomorrow itself just to hear her call again — “Awake, my darling, awake!”
Omar’s words have lived with me ever since, echoing her spirit — a reminder that dawn always returns, no matter how long the night. She gave me poetry before I could grasp its meaning, and love before I could name it.
And so, through Omar Khayyam, my mother still whispers — that life is fleeting, but love, once spoken, never fades.
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