11.12.2025
S: After love has spilled over you. After you have kissed, held hands, put skin against skin. After all this, there comes the night of separation. In Hindi they call it ‘Shab-e-firaaq’.
A: Does there have to be the night of separation?
S: You cannot live in each other’s pockets.
A: Two that would become one. Then they become only two.
S: The moment that you become one is a miracle snatched from this world.
A: Does it have to be a miracle?
S: To live in love and in the body has become a miracle in a prosaic and hateful existence.
A: And what does the lover think about in the night of separation?
S: The body. The kisses. The hands. The hips. The words. The breaths mingling. How to see them again. When there will be the happy moments of love.
A: So the lover then lives in the past and the future. And not the present?
S: The heart of the lover cannot live in the night of separation. For the lover, the bliss of union is where the heart lies. For Krishna, there is Radha who enchants and she is the end of the journey.
A: And for Radha?
S: The road leads to Krishna. Against the night of separation, he is the dawn of a new day.
diary of a lone man 