9 Bahman 1404
Quatrain 7 of 75
“Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
The Winter Garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To fly—and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.”
Reflection · Winter 1404
The Bird of Time in winter is almost at the edge of what you can see. The wing-beat is fainter, the silhouette against the gray sky smaller than it was in Farvardin when it launched. And the Winter Garment of Repentance is back — you are wearing it, because winter is actually the season for reckoning and quiet and honest assessment.
But Khayyam's spring verse heard in winter is a reminder of why you fling the garment in the first place — not to deny winter, but to remember spring. The fire of spring is coming. It is already generating itself, underground, in the chemistry of cold soil and sleeping vine. Keep this verse in winter not as reproach but as promise. The Bird is always on the wing. The fire is never permanently out. The cup is still here.