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Omar Khayyam (130) On Forgiveness and Falling off the Wagon

May 17th, 2012

I singlehandedly keep
this bar afloat.
My heart has bled
with repentance
a couple thousand times.
But if I don’t go on sinning,
what would divine mercy do?
He can’t bestow forgiveness
unless I keep falling
off the wagon.

Translated by Juan Cole
from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, [pdf] Whinfield 130

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