Thursday 15 September 2011

young farmers

بوی بهبود ز اوضاع جهان می‌شنوم
شادی آورد گل و باد صبا شاد آمد


Sunday 11 September 2011

9/11/01 - 9/11/11


Ten years ago, if someone were to have told me where I was going to be today, I would have believed it, but only just.

Saturday 10 September 2011

pen and slate


متاع لوح و قلم چھن گئی تو کیا غم ہے
کہ خونِ دل میں ڈبو لی ہیں انگلیاں میں نے
زباں پہ مہر لگی ہے تو کیا، کہ رکھ دی ہے
ہر ایک حلقۂ زنجیر میں زباں میں نے
    فیض احمد فیض

And why should it pain me that you've taken the worth of my pen and slate? 
My fingers are already dipped in the blood of my heart. 
And what of it, that you've stamped a seal of silence on my tongue? 
All I've said lies before me as links upon a chain.
  ~ Faiz Ahmad Faiz