Love’s Last Madness read with Perpetual Drunkenness reveals the Tippler’s secret. Poem 42 / 31 in Mata’e Noor by Darshan Singh translated by Barry Lerner laughter’s secret joy’s mystery steeped in sorrow “what do they know of laughter’s secret” self-oblivion” “to sacrifice myself for “someone” is my purpose of life” “sincere repentance” “elusive is the secret of my poetry”