Whenever the wounds of your memory - Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Whenever the wounds of your memory seem to fill up again,
Using one excuse or the other, I invoke those memories again.
When I begin to embellish that chapter of my lost beloved here, I ransack every house and look for tresses of her hair to caress again.
When I meet a stranger here, I think recognize an acquaintance I had met when I walked by your alley, again and again.
When memories of homelands are evoked by this exile, Morning eyes become flooded with soundless tears again.
Whenever I, with speech and lips, begin to recall you, In lamentation, half forgotten songs I scatter again.
And when on the prison’s threshold, darkness lays its hand, Faiz, you compel the stars to descend your heart’s stair again.
Translated from the Urdu:
tumhaarii yaad ke jab zaKhm bharane lagate hain kisii bahaane tumhen yaad karane lagate hain
hadiis-e-yaar ke unavaaN nikharane lagate hain to har hariim mein gesuu saNvarane lagate hain
har ajanabii hamen maharam dikhaa_ii detaa hai jo ab bhii terii galii galii se guzarane lagate hain
sabaa se karate hain Gurbat-nasiib zikr-e-vatan to chashm-e-subah mein aaNsuu ubharane lagate hain
vo jab bhii karate hai.n is nutq-o-lab kii baKhiyaagarii fazaa mein aur bhii naGmen bikharane lagate hain
dar-e-qafas pe aNdhere kii muhar lagatii hai to "Faiz" dil mein sitaare utarane lagate hain
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