Faiz Ahmed Faiz

What else remains to be sought in the universe but your eyes?

I would conquer fate, were you to be mine

Having lost the two worlds to your love

There goes someone after his night of sorrow

All the beauties of the song are immortal

The sadness in your eyes and the burning in your breast

Can be dispelled by my comforting words, my love

I would sing to you, go on singing for you

Weaving songs for you, always around you

The poet composes salutations to your beauty

When the colours of someone’s garment are sprinkled on the terrace

So long as your beauty has its youthful power, the world is kind to me

So long as you draw breath, the air of our land is our friend

The stars brighten up one by one

Are those your feet moving towards this, my home?

The mind tells the heart, again and again

How beautiful is life at this moment!

‘Awake, morning is here.

Awake, for the wine of sleep that was your share is shrunk

to the bottom of the wine cup.