Date: Mon, 18 Mar 96 11:46:49 EST
From: Lalit Koul
Subject: Ghazal !!!
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Yeh na thi hamari kismat, ki visaal-e-yaar hota,
Agar aur jeetay rehtay, yahi intezaar hota !
[I was not lucky enough to meet my friend,
If I would have lived any longer, I would have been still waiting
for this meeting !]
Kahoon kis say main ki kya hain, Shab-e-gham
buri bala hai
Mujhay kya bura tha marna, agar ek baar hota !
[Whom should I tell what this is,
Night-of-sorrows is a terrible thing,
I would not have hated to die, if it was just once only !]
Gham agar-chay jaangusil hai, par kahan
bachay ki dil hai,
Gham-e-ishq gar na hota, gham-e-rozgaar hota !
[Even if this sorrow is fatal, how can I
escape, after all it is heart,
If it would not have been sorrows-of-love, it would have been
sorrows-of-world !]
Huey markay hum jo rusva, huey kyon na
gark-e-dariya,
Na kabhi janaza uthta, na kahin mazaar hota,
[If I had to get a bad name after death, why
didn't I vanish in water,
There would not have been any funeral procession, there would not
have been any tomb !]
- Ghalib
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Lalit.