Just Bliss

The unending silence is death to me,

I don’t wish to comment now,

Not to say anything is silence; and death too,

So when there is silence there is also death,

To communicate is life!

But I don’t want to talk,

I want to listen,

To hear lies from you is better than to deceive you,

I want to hear, and hear the truth,

That is free from deceit,

May it have the sweetness of truth or,

Melancholy or the sour reality,

A voice of you being human,

I want to hear,

Before all my insights, beliefs, and perceptions,

Smash against the silence,

Of falsehood,

I want to hear,

A harmony

Urdu composition by Saleem Aazar

Translated by Tanveer Rauf