Solitude
Alone, and acutely awake.
To begin
Kitni ho tum, kitna hoon mainKya hai ke hum log mar jayenge
Our Translation
How lovely you are, how full of wanting I am.What cruelty, that we are people, and we will die.
A path to read next
Ek hi to hai aur wo ye ke aaj takBaat nahin kahi gayi, baat nahin suni gayi
Our Translation
There is only one catastrophe, and it is this:that the thing was never said, and never heard.
maut ka ek din haineend kyun raat bhar nahin aati
Our Translation
Death has one appointed day, fixed and certain,then why does sleep not come the whole night through?
bandagi mein bhi wo o hain ki hamulTe phir aae dar-e- agar wa na hua
Our Translation
So free and self-regarding are we, even in our worship, thatwe turned back from the door of the Kaaba when it did not open for us
pahle sharab thi ab zist hai sharabkoi pila raha hai raha hun main
Our Translation
Once wine was life; now life itself is wine.Someone keeps pouring and I keep drinking on.
go haath ko jumbish nahin aankhon mein to hairahne do abhi -o- mere aage
Our Translation
Though my hand cannot stir, there is still life in my eyes --let the cup and the decanter stay before me a while longer.