Saturday, August 25, 2007

I wish

I could say the unsaid words
I could realize the unrealized fantacies
I could do the undone activities
I hope my soul will be in peace then.

"Hazaaron khwaishein aisi
ki har khwaish pe dum nikle
Bahut nikle mere armaan
lekin phir bhi kam nikle"

- Mirza Ghalib

2 comments:

Indigo Nyx said...

Arre Wah!
aap kabse Mirza Ghalib padne lagey?

But dats one of my all time favourite couplets.. Not a very well done translation though!

English anyway cant do justice to Urdu!

Nowhere Man said...

I didnt intend to translate by the way. I wrote something I felt and then discovered that it is very close to what Ghalib has said.

aapke tashreef laane ka shukria.