Wished to bring you and flower face to face

Posted by: Tanveer Rauf on: October 21, 2016

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Wished to bring you and flower face to face

Nervy Nightingale and I would talk face to face

It’s acceptable no interpreter was available to us

What could we ask the stranger to explain to us?

The sun and the moon are wanderers like me

They are also in search of their dear one, as me

Had they ever seen your long silky hair locks

They’d wished to remain entangled in thy locks

If my beloved isn’t coming then death may come

How long could I hold my heart for her to come?

Don’t ask me of the regressing world Aatish

Wished passion to drizzle like the rainstorm
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HAIDER ALI AATISH
ye aarzū thī tujhe gul ke rū-ba-rū karte
ham aur bulbul-e-betāb guftugū karte

payām-bar na mayassar huā to ḳhuub huā
zabān-e-ġhair se kyā sharh-e-ārzū karte

mirī tarah se mah-o-mahr bhī haiñ āvāra
kisī habīb kī ye bhī haiñ justujū karte

jo dekhte tirī zanjīr-e-zulf kā aalam
asiir hone kī āzād aarzū karte

vo jān-e-jāñ nahīñ aatā to maut hī aatī
dil-o-jigar ko kahāñ tak bhalā lahū karte

na pūchh ālam-e-bargashta-tāla.ī ‘ātish’
barastī aag jo bārāñ kī aarzū karte

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