Down and down in the deep dark void,
down and down we go
Helpless puppets on unseen strings,
dancing to and fro
Down and down in the deep dark void,
where all is dark and low
Rivers of sorrow and the vales of loss,
all misery and woe
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شکوے تو کبھی تھے
بہت کہہ چکے ہیں
وجہیں بھی بہت تھیں
بہت سن چکے ہیں
وہ تھا کہ نہیں تھا
بہت سوچ چکے ہیں
دل کا، انا کا
دم گھونٹ کر اب
دل کو، انا کو،
سیاہ پوش کر دیں
چلو اب خود کو
فراموش کردیں
رستے ہزاروں
بہت چل چکے ہیں
قبروں مزاروں
بہت پھر چکے ہیں
گم ہو چکی ہے
ہمت تھی جتنی
خاک ان رستوں کی
چھانی ہے اتنی
وہ سب خاک ایسے
ہوا دوش کر دیں
آؤ اب خود کو
فراموش کر دیں
بہت رہ لیا ہے
دن تھے وہ جتنے
بہت گن لیا ہے
طعنے تھے کتنے
راتیں بھی لمبی
گزاری ہیں جتنی
ماضی کے سب باب
سپرد آگ کر کے
سب طعنوں تشنعوں کو
خاموش کر دیں
آؤ اب خود کو
فراموش کر دیں
نا تھا کوئی اپنا
نا اپنا کوئی ہوگا
نا تھی کوئی چھاؤں
نا سایہ کوئی ہوگا
خوابوں کے پیچھے
وہ بھگڈر تھی جتنی
بیکار ضائع
خواہش کی جتنی
وہ سب خواب مٹی میں
روپوش کر دیں
آؤ اب خود کو
فراموش کر دیں
بہت رو لیا ہے
بہت ہنس لیا ہے
جدائی کا صدمہ
بہت سہ لیا ہے
لمحے تھے جتنے
مقدر میں لکھے
وہ لمحے مٹانے کا
وقت ہوگیا ہے
آؤ اب چپکے سے
خاموش ہو کر
آؤ اب خود کو
فراموش کر دیں
#Urdu #poetry #poem #helplessness #sadness #uselessness #fate #effort #failure #love #desire #dream #imagination #end #life #death
Down and down
in the deep dark void,
down and down we go
Helpless puppets
on unseen strings,
dancing to and fro
Down and down
in the deep dark void,
where all is dark and low
Rivers of sorrow
and the vales of loss,
all misery and woe
Down and down
in the deep dark void,
where all is grey and foe
Soils are rotten
and all decays,
whatever do you sow
Down and down
in the deep dark void,
where all is cold and snow
The chill of loss
and the sins you pursued,
regret is what you owe
Down and down
in the deep dark void,
the face you never show
Mirrored are the walls
the ugly truth,
a loathsome tableau
Down and down
in the deep dark void,
hides the lethal blow
The wind so strong
the hope so gone,
the anchor you must throw
Down and down
in the deep dark void,
croaks the black crow
The end is nigh,
judgment at hand,
but death will come so slow
#english #poem #end #darkness #hope #desperation #helplessness #regret
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Deep within the void I choose to call my heart,
there exists the nucleus of my old and tired soul
It is a desolation, so fierce and so very vast,
a frozen glacier, so very bitter and so very cold
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The harsh chill bites into my creaking bones,
it cuts me from without and also from within
Intense is the pain, so many shades and tones,
twisting my memory and crumpling my skin
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I bleed profusely from a million different places,
yet it is only I who sees the oozing blood
I shout helplessly with a million screaming faces,
no one helps, no one comes to stop the flood
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‘You are cursed forever,’ the words say,
destined to walk alone, the sad path of life
‘To the very end, that is your only way,
a watery grave, a bullet, or maybe a sharp knife’
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‘And why is that so?’ I ask with a weary smile,
while my heart keeps on sinking, down and down
‘Your soul is dark,’ strangely, the answer is so vile,
and your heart is an abandoned ghost town’
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I look within and find all the ghosts smiling,
their faces contorted in agony and in mirth
Their gestures are cruel and all reviling,
demons in pursuit, since my damned birth
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I look around and find myself surrounded,
by the murmurings of all the immortal birds
I look at myself, forever hunted, forever hounded,
their razor-sharp beaks, claws, and harsh words
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The birds are all near, they are almost here,
they are eager to devour my exhausted soul
Their whispers are dreadful, I tremble with fear,
my fate is all done, it has rolled its black scroll
Shehryar khawar 