Monday, March 30, 2020

Tapas

Khauf ye.
Jo kahi tu dikh jaaye
Toh pairo tale se zamee khisak jaaye.

Tapas ye,
Jo kahi se teri awaaz aa jaye
Toh yeh tap kahi bhang na ho jaaye

Yakeen ye,
Jo yeh stotram pada hai maine,
Shiv tu zaroor aayega, kisi roop main, milne. 

Friday, March 27, 2020

Adhoora Vaada

Sahar main milne ka jo vaada kiya
Abr ne bhi falak ko siyah kar diya

Sham-e-siyah-post main eh lakht-e-jigar ko mere
Ku-e-yaar main milne mai chal diya

Hijr ka waqt tha, dozakh se paigaam aaya.
Hazart-e-dil tuhse milne ki thi, par paigaam quboolta main chala gaya.

Monday, March 23, 2020

Amazing Lyrics - Part 5

Bol ke labh azad hai tere
Bol zuban takk teri hai
Tera suthva jism hai tera
Bol ke jaan ab tak teri hai

Takte takte ṭooṭi jaaye aas piya nah aaye
Shaam sawere dard anokhe uṭhen jiya ghabraaye
Mera naseeb toon
Mere qareeb toon
Rabb di saunh tere jaya koyi naheen

Jadon badal garje sanh(saans) rukjande,
Akhaan tainu vekhan hanju mukk jande,
Kadi aa mahiya ve saade vehre,
Mukk jaane ne saare vichorre,
Soona jagg ve saara mainu bulawe,
Kadi meri vi oh na kadar na paave.

Hun sun meri gal, Mera kaha na tu mod
Bas ehi fariyad, kisse gal di nai load
Main hoya jogi ode pyar ch fakir,
Mera naam haiga Ranjha, meri khoi na tu heer.

1. Bol ke Labh - Faiz Ahmad Faiz
2. Sab Jag Soye - Sujha Haidar, 
3. Kadi Aao Ni - Mai Dhai, Atif Aslam
4. Rabba - Amit Trivedi, Tochi Raina

Sunday, March 22, 2020

Deep Blue Sky

Deep blue skies and parting rays,
A moonless night and the end of days.

I'll break through my shackles of this life,
And meet you in the darkest night.

Monday, March 9, 2020

Amazing Lyrics - Part 4

Baate jo kare, toh bola wo yahi
Mae to tha yahin, tu ne dekha nahi
Tere sang to yu khari thi mae
Yu hi khari thi main.

Dekha na tune
Mudake bhi pichhe
Kuch der to main ruka tha
Jab dil ne tujh ko
Rokana chaha
Door tu ja chuka tha

Ek dhaage mein hain uljhe yoon
Ke bunte bunte khul gaye
Hum the likhe deewaron pe
Baarish huyi aur dhul gaye

Beeta deed umeed ka mausham
Khaak udti hai aankho mein
Kab bhejoge dard ka baadal
Kab barkha barsaoge.

Credits:
1. Yun hi rastey main - Ali Sethi
2. Hogaya hain tujhko toh pyaar sajna
3. Ek tukda dhoop
4. Dil ki khair - Ali Sethi

Sunday, March 8, 2020

Why don't you?

Why don't you elaborate a single emotion?
Why don't you gift yourself a poem?

Why don't you let your anger go?
Why don't you let all the hate go?

Why don't you just accept the status quo?
Give up failed ideas taken 4 years ago?

Why don't you? asked a few.

I'm making peace with the road not taken,
Holding on to parts - which are broken.

I'm making peace with my blindfolded plunge.
Battered, then comes a forward lunge. 

I'm in the process of making peace,
Until then 'Smile and wave, please'

Part 2(Hampi)
Why don't you?
I did. 
An experience of a time now forgotten.
Of places now abandoned 
Of lives once lived 
An empire now extinct.