A thousand desires such as these

Just felt like sharing a piece of beautiful poetry... a combination of song Hazaron Khwaishein aisi (part2) and the original ghazal by Ghalib

A thousand desires such as these
A thousand moments to set this night on fire
Reach out and you can touch them
You can touch them with your silences
You can reach them with your lust
Rivers mountains rain
Rain against a torrid hill’s cape
A thousand
A thousand desires such as these

हज़ारों  ख्वाहिशें  ऎसी  की  हर  ख्वाइश  पे  दम  निकले
बहुत  निकले  मेरे  अरमान  लेकिन  फिर  भी  कम  निकले 

(Thousands of desires, each worth dying for...
many of them I have realized...yet I yearn for more...)

 I loved rain as a child
As a lost young man
Empty landscapes
Bleached by a tired sun
And then
And then suddenly it came
Like a dark unknown woman
Her eyes scorched my silences
Her body wrapped itself around me
Like a summer without end

 निकलना  खुल्द  से  आदम  का  सुनते  आये  थे  लेकिन
बहुत  बे-आबरू  होकर  तेरे  कूचे  से  हम  निकले 

(We have heard about the dismissal of Adam from Heaven,
With a more humiliation, I am leaving the street on which you live...

another metaphorical meaning: of the unclean birth of man from the womb one has heard

But you must see my rebirth when i passed shamelessly by your door... )

Pause me, hold me, reach me,
Where no man has gone
Crossing the seven seas
With the wings of fire
I fly towards nowhere
And you
Rivers mountains rain
Rain against a scorched landscape of pain

मुहब्बत  में  नहीं  है  फर्क  जीने  और  मरने  का
उसी  को  देख  कर  जीते  हैं  जिस   काफिर पे  दम  निकले 

 (When in love, there is little difference between life and death
we live by looking at the infidel who we are willing to die for)

A thousand desires such as these
A thousand moments to set this night on fire
Reach out and you can touch them
You can touch them with your silences
You can reach them with your lust
Rivers mountains rain
Rain against a torrid hill’s cape
A thousand
A thousand desires such as these...

हज़ारों  ख्वाहिशें  ऎसी  की  हर  ख्वाइश  पे  दम  निकले
बहुत  निकले  मेरे  अरमान  लेकिन  फिर  भी  कम  निकले...

the complete ghazal:

डरे  क्यों  मेरा  कातिल  क्या  रहेगा  उसकी  गर्दन  पर
वो  खून  जो  चश्म-ए-तर  से  उम्र  भर  यूं  दम -बे-दम  निकले 

(so don’t cry , my love, you didn’t cause this pain

 It was my fault that I fell so intensly in love with you.)

भरम  खुल  जाए  ज़ालिम  तेरे  कामत   की  दराजी  का
अगर  इस  तुर्रा -ए -पुरापेच -ओ -ख़म  का  पेच -ओ -ख़म  निकले 

 (Oh tyrant, your true personality will be known to all
if the curls of my hair slip through my turban!)

 

मगर  लिखवाये  कोई  उसको  ख़त  तो  हमसे  लिखवाये 
हुई  सुबह  और  घर  से  कान  पर  रख कर  कलम  निकले 

(for a long while, I wanted no more than that I get to write the poetic letters

your many admires make me write to you,

 i went each day, like to work , with a pen behind my ear)

 

हुई  इस  दौर  में  मंसूब  मुझसे  ब़डा-आशामी 

फिर  आया  वो  ज़माना  जो  जहां  से  जाम -ए -जम  निकले 

(and I was acquainted with such intoxication during this period of knowing you,

that the world , after ,  appeared  passionless and dry.)

हुई   जिनसे  तवक्को  खस्तगी  की  दाद  पाने  की
वो  हमसे  भी  ज्यादा  खस्ता -ए -तेग -ए -सितम  निकले 

(From whom I expected justice/praise for my weakness
turned out to be more injured with the same cruel sword)

ज़रा  कर  ज़ोर  सीने  पर  की  तीर -ए -पुरसितम  निकले
जो  वो  निकले  तो  दिल  निकले  जो  दिल  निकले  तो  दम  निकले  

( Put some pressure on your heart to remove that cruel arrow,
for if the arrow comes out, so will your heart...and your life)

खुदा  के  वास्ते  पर्दा  न  काबे  से  उठा  ज़ालिम
कहीं  ऐसा  न  हो  याहाँ  भी  वही  काफिर  सनम  निकले  

(For god's sake, don't lift the cover off any secrets you tyrant
the infidel might turn out to be my lover!)

कहाँ  मैखाने  का  दरवाज़ा  ग़ालिब  और  कहाँ  वाइज़
पर  इतना  जानते  हैं  कल  वोह  जाता  था  के  हम  निकले 

(The preacher and the bar's entrance are way apart
yet I saw him entering the bar as I was leaving!)