Mirror

Mirror

The mirror is broken, broken, broken.
Look at your face this once,
See how it's changed.
Do your eyes still blaze with color?
Or are they timid, afraid?

I saw such beauty in this mirror once,
It seems hard to believe;
And asked, proudly,
Could anyone be fairer?

It wasn't the magic of the mirror.
You were beautiful, and it showed.
And so the world discovered you
Before you found yourself.

And when you found yourself:
Why did you break the mirror?
More (for this alone was no loss)
Why did you lose sight of yourself?

Look at your face this once,
See how it's changed.

- Kaifi Azmi (translation mine)

Cross-posted from Lost and Found, the new translation wiki in response to this (thanks to Binu for setting it all up). You can see alternate translations and the transliterated original, as well as my comments on the wikipage.

P.S. Bonus Azmi translation (plus audio) here.