Hazaaron khwahishen aisi ke har khwahish pe dam nikle
Bohat niklay mere armaan, lekin phir bhi kam nikle
-Mirza Ghalib
Oh passion! Why do you elude me
In the darkest of nights,
During the blaze of glory, of realized
Social dreams, small circles that
I create, handed down to me by
Generations of untold misery
and hated slavery...
Literature! Why did you come to me
in the first place? I did not ask for you
Literature is like warm blood,
Like a sweet poison that ruins from within
but tastes heavenly...
Fools are those who claim poetry is happiness...
Literature is painted with joy
They do not know the pain
The pain of lost love, the misery of
Unable to write anything meaningful
Under the sky...
You know that? Will you ever know
my disgust, my fury at myself within
The confines of my comfort, my cigarettes,
My obsessive nights when I lie
On my bed and think of my love,
Whom I let go in a moment of desperation
In a moment when I thought I could make use
Of my tears to get her back?
Such is passion, such is pain, my friend
So unrealized, yet so tempting!
I do not have a thousand passions, Ghalib
I do not know the words
Which I can use to make a cast in which I can pour
All the desires and fantasy and wine
And shape it like poetry.
Such is pain my friend, when you know for sure
What drives you, what you live for
What makes you angry what makes you fiery
What makes you the way you are
And still being unable, like a crippled man
To put the words to paper, to fail miserably
Night after night the unending struggle...
Goes on.
This is not living, my friend..this is just surviving.
Locked within floating
Bubbles of so called happiness, a pinch of lust and power
And some money I won in a lottery called JOB...
This is...hanging on. I do not know the struggle of the ones without food
Or the ones being gang-raped every day in broad daylight
Or the hopeless souls being torn to pieces by war
I am dying to live! I am dying to live!
Look at me! I am dying to live!
Bohat niklay mere armaan, lekin phir bhi kam nikle
-Mirza Ghalib
Oh passion! Why do you elude me
In the darkest of nights,
During the blaze of glory, of realized
Social dreams, small circles that
I create, handed down to me by
Generations of untold misery
and hated slavery...
Literature! Why did you come to me
in the first place? I did not ask for you
Literature is like warm blood,
Like a sweet poison that ruins from within
but tastes heavenly...
Fools are those who claim poetry is happiness...
Literature is painted with joy
They do not know the pain
The pain of lost love, the misery of
Unable to write anything meaningful
Under the sky...
You know that? Will you ever know
my disgust, my fury at myself within
The confines of my comfort, my cigarettes,
My obsessive nights when I lie
On my bed and think of my love,
Whom I let go in a moment of desperation
In a moment when I thought I could make use
Of my tears to get her back?
Such is passion, such is pain, my friend
So unrealized, yet so tempting!
I do not have a thousand passions, Ghalib
I do not know the words
Which I can use to make a cast in which I can pour
All the desires and fantasy and wine
And shape it like poetry.
Such is pain my friend, when you know for sure
What drives you, what you live for
What makes you angry what makes you fiery
What makes you the way you are
And still being unable, like a crippled man
To put the words to paper, to fail miserably
Night after night the unending struggle...
Goes on.
This is not living, my friend..this is just surviving.
Locked within floating
Bubbles of so called happiness, a pinch of lust and power
And some money I won in a lottery called JOB...
This is...hanging on. I do not know the struggle of the ones without food
Or the ones being gang-raped every day in broad daylight
Or the hopeless souls being torn to pieces by war
I am dying to live! I am dying to live!
Look at me! I am dying to live!