Monday, May 18, 2009

# 3 Mataye loh-o-qalam

Mataye loh-o-qalam cheen gai to kiya gum hai
ke khune-dil main dubo li hai ungliyaN main ne
zabaN pe mohar lagi hai to kiya, ke rukh di hai
har aik halqa-e-zanjeer main zubaN main ne

Who cares!* - if (they) snatched my pen and paper
as I dipped fingers in my bleeding heart
What if sealed is (my) recital,
as I sublimed roar in each girdle of the shackle


* May be read as No grief!