us ne kahaa aao,
us ne kahaa Thehro
muskuraao kahaa us ne
mar jaao kahaa us ne
maiN aaya,
maiN Thehar gayaa,
muskuraaaya
aur mar bhii gayaa
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She said Come
She said Stay
Smile she said
She said Die
I came
I didn't leave
Yes, I smiled
And I even died.
(Translated from Faiz's Urdu version of a poem by Nazim Hikmet addressed to his Russian wife, Vera) |
