They Never Bend their Knee
Beyond the sun-kissed meadows of gold;
stand the snow-clad mountains so bold
They are lonesome indeed, I fully agree;
but ego is grand, they never bend the knee
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اب کے تجدید وفا کا نہیں امکاں جاناں
اب کے تجدید وفا کا نہیں امکاں جاناں
یاد کیا تجھ کو دلایئں تیرا پیماں جاناں
یونہی موسم کی ادا دیکھ کر یاد آیا ہے
کسقدر جلد بدل جاتے ہیں انساں جاناں
احمد فراز
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The Strange Solace
There is a strange solace to be found,
in ‘what goes around, comes around’
Karma is the only refuge for the weak,
their hands are bound, lips can’t speak
Our Heaven is Here, Our Hell is Here
For those who look up at the skies with searching eyes;
look all around us, our heaven is here, our hell is here
They are all liars, holy ones with their beseeching cries;
they do not seek your salvation, they simply do not care
The Failed Colors of Dawn
Dawn is just failed colors when love is dead;
stink of hope’s rotten corpse hangs in the air
Pregnant clouds whisper, bellies full of dread;
life is a battle of egos, neither justified nor fair
The Messiahs of Broken Birds
Some said they came down from the grey hills;
others called them children of the silent lake
A pair of kind smiling eyes and no other skills;
their warmth was genuine and not at all fake
The Kingdom without a King
I have heard that there is peace down below;
silence is a tranquil lake and no dark murmurs
I have heard there is no ego there, high or low;
life is no more a battle, no losers no learners
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I lived with a child of snow
Well, I lived with a child of snow
When I was a soldier
And I fought every man for her
Until the nights grew colder
From ‘The Winter Lady’, a song by Leonard Cohen
نیّت شوق بھر نا جائے کہیں
