What’s love
if no pleasure and pain?
Existing like the dead
lying on the bed
of soil
will spoil
the goal of life, o Man.
Who can
be a Majnu* if he
does not fall in the sea
of pain?
Without suffering, there’s no gain.
*Majnu means Kayes, a legendary lover of Laila
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I can give freeMy sky and my country;I can jump into fire(I am no liar)My Love, my peace,For your one kiss.
They say
the top news of the day.You have already readthe top news of the year-I am now dead.Am Ireally dead? O friends,tell, does a poet ever die?
Birds have no country,
Rivers do not count Army or border.Showing thumbs to all raising gunsAnd mighty kings,The rivers move runningTearing all barbed wires of the border.O Men, where have you got the borderAnd the border-guards?
Meaningless is the song of a cuckoo
Nothing is so much importantOn earth but love.Meaningless is the gold of Africa,Diamond and pearl;Nothing is so much importantBut the love of a girl.Meaningless is the throne of USAAnd the President’s power;Nothing is so much importantBut the peak of love’s tower.
Blow the sail, boatman, in this unruly wind. Removing the sweat
With successive strokes of faith, go forward cutting the angry wavesAnd keep muttering the name of the kinsman of your existence.Boatman, keep singing your soul-crushing song in his name.In his name, raise an uncontrollable uproar of wailing. Watch the River resonate under the green wind, resonate the banks and waves.In this wind, boatman, blow your…
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It makes one’s life heavenThough once it was desert.Love is a light; all lightsCome to remove darkness;From God it comes on earth,Returns to its birth-place.