under the moon

chaand | 22 | chai | khwabeedah half poetry, half ache

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february is one of those months where you experience every feeling on the human spectrum and you just have to go about your day like that isn't happening

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Aap ki yaad aati rahi raat bhar

Chandni dil dukhati rahi raat bhar

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When Ahmad Faraz wrote,

Hamesha ke liye mujhse bichadh jaa

Ye manzar baarhaa mujhse dekha na jaye

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When Salman Akhtar said,

Ik wahi shakhs mujhko yaad raha

Jisko samjha tha bhuul jaunga

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When Waseem Barelvi said

maiñ jin dinoñ tire baare meñ sochtā huuñ bahut

unhīñ dinoñ to ye duniyā samajh meñ aatī hai

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When Nasir kazmi said

ai dost ham ne tark-e-mohabbat ke bāvajūd

mahsūs kī hai terī zarūrat kabhī kabhī

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When Ghalib Ayaz said

phir yahī rut ho ain mumkin hai

par tirā intizār ho ki na ho

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When Ahmad Faraz said

Ye kya ke sab se bayaan dil ki halatein karni

Faraz tujhko na ayein mohabbatein karni

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Call me “Jaun Elia” because

Paaya tou tujhe boond sa bhi nahi

Aur khone ka dar samundar sa hai

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What beauty can be there be to mention after your eyes?

تیری آنکھوں کے سوا دنیا میں رکھا کیا ہے

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Sometimes I wonder why I feel so alone in a world full of people.

Ab jis taraf se chahe guzar jaye karwaan

Veeraniyan tou sab mere dil mein utar gayein

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When Jaun Elia said

Ehd-e-rafaqat theek hai lekin mujhko aisa lagta hai

Tum to mere saath rahogi main tanha reh jaunga

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Sahir Ludhianvi described my current situation so well when he wrote

Kabhi khud pe kabhi haalat pe rona aya

Baat nikli tou har aik baat pe rona aya

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When Jaun Elia said

Aik hi shakhs tha jahaan mein kya?

But Faiz Ahmad Faiz said

Aur bhi dukh hain zamane mein mohabbat ke siwa

My heart kept going through all these phases w/o finding peace

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They think we won’t leave them no matter how badly they will treat us…

Aise chorhein ge tera shehar ke hum is ki janib

Gardish-e-waqt ke maare bhi nahi ayein ge

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We don’t say “I am unlucky” we say,

hum wo siyaah bakht hain Tariq, ke shehar mein

kholein dukaan kafan ki tou log marna chorh dein

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Aaj tou besabab udaasi hai

Ishq hota tou koi baat bhi thi