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1973

I have come from the edge of the world
I have come from the lungs of the wind
With a thing I have seen so awesome
Even Dzambul could not sing it
With a fear in my heart so sharp
It will cut the strongest of metals

In the ancient tales it is told
In a time that is older than Qorqyt
Who took from the wood of Syrghaj
The first qobyz, and the first song--
It is told that a land far distant
Is the place of the Kirghiz Light

In a place where words are unknown
And eyes shine like candles at night
And the face of God is a presence
Behind the mask of the sky--
At the tall black rock in the desert
In the time of the final days

If the place were not so distant
If words were known, and spoken
Then the God might be a Gold ikon
Or a page in a paper book
But It comes as the Kirghiz Light--
There is no other way to know It

The roar of Its voice is deafness
The flash of Its light is blindness
The floor of the desert rumbles
And Its face cannot be borne
And a man cannot be the same
After seeing the Kirghiz Light

For I tell you that I have seen It
In a place which is older than darkness
Where even Allah cannot reach
As you see, my beard is an ice-field
I walk with a stick to support me
But this light must change us to children

And now I cannot walk far
For a baby must learn to walk
And my words are reaching your ears
As the meaningless wounds of a baby
For the Kirghiz Light took my eyes
Now I sense all Earth like a baby

It is north, for a six-day ride
Through the steep and death-gray canyons
Then across the stony desert
To the mountain whose peak is a white dzurt
And if you have passed without danger
The place of the black rock will find you

But if you would not be born
Then stay with your warm red fire
And stay with your wife, in your tent
And the Light will never find you
And your heart will grow heavy with age
And your eyes will shut only to sleep
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