Chahar-Beyti · Four-Couplet

World

Vahid Nazemi

The message of life is — yes, being is so brief

Trust to the world’s word — is an idiot’s belief

Life begins by feeding — by eating lives as beef

Walking with happy feeling — on the dried, died leaf

Nine's alas, wondering — for a One, Ten is the chief

As ruler at own home — a beggar, sinner, a thief

Worldly souls stress — far from rest, relief

Found glass in falling — hardness of stone, reef