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Some people are like an open grave:You give it the thing you love mostAnd then get nothing in return.
Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
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Some people are like an open grave:You give it the thing you love mostAnd then get nothing in return.
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Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri

Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets

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