It was another beautiful night when I wrote this ghazal around 3 AM with a perfectly sharpened pencil in my hand. The pencil was sharpened to write code(pertaining to some web application), but this is what eventually came out of that graphite. So, here's how it goes:
DuayeiN be-asar hoke jab laut aayiiN, tou samjha zameeN se falak bahut duur hai ;
Teri tasveer bhi jab dhuNdlii nazar aayi, tou samjha zameeN se falak bahut duur hai ...
Yaad dard dilaata rahaa ke abhi zinda huN, Shayad manzil abhi bahut duur hai ;
Talaash abhi manzil ki kahaaN kar sakta huN, Jab raastey bhar ka nishaaN bahut duur hai ...
KarwatoN ke sehra meiN bhaTakti raat ko keh do, Ke neeNd ka aashiyaaN abhi bahut duur hai ;
MaiN kashti-e-hasrat liye jitna chale jaa rahaa huN, Bass lagta hai saahil utna hi duur hai ...
Haq ka raaz jaan lene ki baat nahiN ae dost, Haq ko raaz jaan lenaa abhi bahut duur hai ;
ZubaaN-e-yaar ki dhun meiN kho ke reh gaya huN, Rooh-e-yaar se guftgu tou bahut duur hai ...
PS: I still feel sad when I recall how profusely it bled in Srijan '10 because of the typo errors.
In the second line, the picture that seems hazy is her face in the moon. I have mentioned it explicitly here since I have been told by many friends that the aashaar is too abstract to convey what I intended to.
As they say, "This too shall pass !". Life goes on ...
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