Monday, March 24, 2008

Farewell

A poem one of my colleagues sang for my farewell. Was deeply moving, the way he said it. Will always remember this moment.

Yeh kaisi aatish, naa dhooan naa lapt koi !
phir bhi yeh aashiyaan jhulsta jaa raha hai !
socha naa thaa ki bichhdeyenge hum aissey,
magar ab dil yeh hakeekat samjhtaa jaa raha hai ...

For the Urdu-illiterate like me, here is a very inaccurate attempt to capture it in English:

What kind of fire is it ! There is neither smoke nor flame,
But still our home is burning away !
Never thought we will depart away so soon,
But now the heart is sinking-in the reality ...

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