Monday, February 27, 2012

Mujh Se Milne Ka Bahana: Any Excuse To Meet Me.

مجھ سے ملنے کا کوئی تو بہانہ ڈھونڈو
دل کے رکھنے کا کوئی تو فسانہ ڈھونڈو

کوئی لغزش کوئی شورش وجھ ترک تعلق نہ بنے
میرے دل میں ہر لحظہ رہنے کا زمانہ ڈھونڈو

چاند جب بام پے آے تو میں تمھیں یاد آؤں
بزم میں کھل کے چمکنے کا بہانہ ڈھونڈو

میرے ہمدم میرے پاس پیو جام محبّت
میرے دل کو میخانہ بنانے کا ٹھکانا ڈھونڈو

کیا پتا کب ملیں ہم کو سفینے پھر سے
گھر کے طوفان میں ساحل کا مزہ نہ ڈھونڈو

دل کی موہوم سی خواہش بھی بڑی لگتی ہے
دشت جنوں  میں لٹ  کر مٹ   نہ جانا ڈھونڈو  

Roman Lettering :
Mujh se milne ka koi to bahana dhoondo
Dil ke rakhne ka koi to fasana dhoondo

Koi laghzish koi shorish wajhe tarke taaluq na bane
Mere dil mein har lahza rehne ka bahana dhoondo

Chand jab baam pe aaye to mein tumhe yaad aaon
Bazm mein khil ke chamkne ka bahana dhoondo

Mere hamdam mere paas piyo jaame muhabbat
Mere dil ko mekhaana banane ka thikhana dhoondo

Kiya pata kab milein ham ko safeene phir se
Ghir ke toofaan mein saahil ka maza na dhoondo

Dil ki mohum si khwahish bhi bardi lagti hai
Dashte junoon mein lut kar mit na jaana dhoondo
Roses by Meherzaidi, the poet.
Translation:
Pray, my darling find any excuse to meet me
Charm my heart eternally, make a story


Be careful, my love, nor a mistake , never a folly be made to keep us apart
Stay in my heart all the time, at all times


Remember me, my sweetest,every time the Moon is full
Shine in every party thinking of me


O my lover, come share the wine of love with me
Dwell in my heart , make it your wine cellar


Alas who knows when will we find our ships ashore
When in a storm do not long for the pleasures of the shores


Even a fickle desire of the heart overpowers you
Beware, do not perish after wandering in the desserts of passions
  













Sunday, February 19, 2012

I Want to Cross Over Da Moon Wid U

 A Love Song
By Meherzaidi
Man, I wanna cross ova da moon wid u 
Tonite, today, now
Man , dis ma dream 
Like a bold , wild painting, splashing Red
 Singin ma songs for u
 Man , wanna spread dis Sun for u
 Ova my face, ma lips
Savour da sweet salt of da sea on ya sweet sexy lips
 Man I wanna cross ova da moon wid u


Man, I wanna share my joys in ma breasts wid u
 Like a loving ma to a child
 Man, I wanna share ur sorrows
Man, I wanna kiss u nite and day, foreva
Man, kiss me, love me , dont eva let me go , Now


Man, I wanna be ur lover , only , foreva, now
Man , dont go eva away, away from me
Hold ma hand, tight and warm
Feel my love , Man


I wanna be in ur arms for eva
Touching da stars 
I wanna lay down by ur side , each and every night
Till I live
Man, I wanna cross ova da moon wid u , love!
The Moon and the Earth, Gauguin.











Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Aik Safaid Lily, Aik Surkh Lily..A White Lily , A Red Lily.


ہے میرے دوست میرے ہمدم
تیرے وہ ان کہے شکوے وہ گلے
میرا سکون برباد کر گئے
میری نیند اوڑھ گی
میں کھڑی  رہ گی
میں کٹ گی میں مر گی
کہاں کھلوں کہاں چھپوں
میں کیا کروں میں کیا کروں 
تو میری دل وہ جان میں ہے
یقین کر اس بات کا
میں تیرے ہر دم کے ساتھ ہوں 
یقین نہ ہو تو مار دے
میں تن اپنا ڈھا لوں گی
مومل کی طرھ گور میں
اور میری قبر پر رکھنا دو پھول
ایک سفید لیلے
میرے پوتر ہونے کا ثبوت
اور ایک سرخ لیلے
 میرے ابد ہونے کا ثبوت
Roman English:
Aye mere dost mere hamdam
Tere woh unkahe shikwey wa gile
Mera sukoon barbaad kar gaye
Meri neend urh gayi
Mein khari reh gayi
Mein lut gayi mein mar gayi
Kahan chupon kahan khulon
Mein kia karun mein kia karun

Tu mere dil wa jaan mein hai
Yaqeen kar is baat ka
Mein tere har dam saath hun
Yaqeen na ho to maar de
Mein tan apna dhalun gi
Moomal ki tarha gor mein
Aur meri qabar pe rakhna do phool
Aik safed lily
Mere pawitr hone ka suboot
Aur aik surkh lily
Mere abad hone ka suboot
Mere hamdam mere dost

Translation:
O my friend, my love
Thine unsaid moan
Thine unsaid protest
Mine peaceful sleep gone
I stand still and alone
Lost
I am finished
Where do I hide
Where do I start
What should I do
What should I do

You are in my heart
You are in my soul
Believe me, my love
I am with you always

If you do not believe
Kill me 
I will hide my existence 
In a grave like Moomal did
And my love lay down two flowers on my grave

One white Lily to prove my chasteness
One Red Lily to prove my eternity!
Meherzaidi, the poet.















Monday, February 13, 2012

Ab mein Kiya Karun? What should I do?

اے  میرے پیارے  دوست 
اے میرے پورے دوست 
اے میرے سچے دوست
اے میرے اپنے دوست

تم نے میرے ذھن اور سکون کو منتشر کر دیا
میری دنیا بدل گی
میری کاینات بدل گی 
وہ تجزیہ وہ حججتیں
تمام ہوئیں الٹ  گین 
میرے راستے کی امڈتی دھول
دھل  گی فنا ہوئی
داستان بدل گی
راستہ بدل گی
میری روش
میری خلش
بدل گیی بدل گیی

تو اب بتا میں کیا کروں
کہاں پھروں کہاں روکوں    
میں جمبشوں کے بل چلوں
کہ آندھیوں کو روک دون
کہاں چلوں کہاں روکوں
میں کب کروں میں کیا کروں

یہ جبر کے  جبل بڑے
صدی سے ہیں کھڑے ہوے
یہ راستوں کو روکتے 
جکڑ  کے مجھ کو ٹوکتے
کہاں اٹھوں کہاں چڑھوں
بتاؤ اب میں کیا کروں

میں سلاسل اپنے کھول دوں؟
میں چوڑیوں کو توڑ  دوں؟ 
میں کیا کروں میں کیا کروں ؟
بتاؤ تو میں کیا کروں!

یہ قفس جو میرا گھر بھی تھا
بکھر رہا ہے ھل کے اب
سلاخیں اب ہیں ٹہنیاں
امڈ رہی ہے موج بھی

یہ طوفانے ذھن وہ دل 
ہے پسے دیوار ابھی
بتاؤ اب میں کیا کروں
دیواری  دل کو کھول دوں؟
ڈھا کے جبر بول دوں؟
بتاؤ اب میں کیا کروں؟
میں کیا کروں میں کیا کروں

یہ  طوفان   اٹھ رہا ہے کیوں 
یہ سچ رواں دواں  ہے کیوں 
میں راستے کو کھول دوں
بتاؤ اب میں کیا کروں
بتاؤ سچ میں کیا کروں
Translation:
O, my dear friend
O, my sweet friend
O, my complete friend
O, my real friend

How have you scattered my peace 
Of mind and soul
My world has changed
 My universe has changed
Those analysis, those arguments
All in vain
All dispersed
The story has changed
The path has changed
The dust arising on my path
 Has been washed away, settled
My way has changed
My restlessness has changed
Tell me what should I do?
Where do I wander? Where do I stop?
Should I move with moments
Or should I stop Storms
When do I walk , when do I stop
When and what should I do.

These mountains of tyranny are tall
Standing since centuries
These block the way forward
These enslave me and stop
Where do I climb
Where do I stand?
Tell  me whta should I do?

Do I unshackle my chains?
Should I break my bangles?
What should I do?
 Tell me what should I do?

This home that was my prison
Its shaken and withering
The steel rods have become  hay
The wave also swells surely
This storm in my mind and heart 
Is behind the wall, hidden
Tell me what should I do
Tell me!
Should I break down the wall around my heart?
Should I crush the tyranny?
Should I raise my voice?
Tell me what should I do?
What should I do?
What should I do?

This storm rises, why?
This truth marches on
Should I pave the way?
Tell me what should I do?














Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Raat ka pichla pehar....The hour before Dawn.

شاید  تم سو گئے
رات کا پچھلا پھر باقی ہے ابھی
میری دبی ھوئی  چیخ نہ سنی  تم نے
جو ایک ایسے پیار کے لمحے میں نکلی  تھی میرے حلقوم سے
صدیوں کی دبی ھوئی  چیخ جو انسان کے حلقوم میں دبتی ہے 
دبی رہتی ہے
جو دہقان کے حلقوم میں دبی رہتی ہے
جب اس کا رزق اسی  کی اپنی محنت کا پھل اس پر بند کیا جاتا ہے
 بندے قفل
بردی بردی تختیوں میں 
بکنے کے لئے
 اور وہ اور اس کے بھوکے بچے صرف دیکھنے کے لئے پیچھے رہ جاتے ہیں
 پیچھہے 
اس فرسودہ سامراجی نظام کی نہ انصاف تنہا زمین میں پیچھے
میری دبی ھوئی چیخ جب وہ میری زبان چوستا تھا
ایک عذاب ایک عذاب جو ایک بہت ہی کالی گہری لہر کی طرھ  ابھرا اور مجھ کو ڈبو کر لے گیا

ایک ایسی چیخ جو کسی مزدور کے حلقوم سے نکلتی ہے جب وہ درد کے عذاب میں تنہا ہے
جب وہ اپنے حق کے لئے لڑتا بھی نہیں 
صرف سسکتا ہے
کیوں کے کراچی اور لاہور کی فکتوریوں  میں اس کو صرف اد ہوک رکھا گیا ہے
ڈیلی  ویجس  پر
تاکے اس کو کوئی فائدہ کبھی نا ملے
اور یہ آرٹی مڈل  میں
 اس کا خون چوس چوس کر خود اپنی موتی  توندوں  اور اپنی لمبی داڑھیوں اور اپنے اونچے پانچوں کو سمبھالتے رہیں 
 اور یہ فرسودہ نظام
جس پر یہ اپنے خدا کی چکّی بھی چلاتے ہیں
میں اس کے ٹھنڈے بوسوں کے وژن کے عذاب میں دبتی رہی
رات کے پچھلے پھر
تم شاید سو گئے تھے

کب سبحہ ہوگی
میں یہ سوچتی  رہتی  ہوں
کب وہ سرخ علم ابھرے گا
جب ہمارے حلقوم کی دبی چیخیں زور و شور سے نکل کر فنا ہو چکی ہونگی
وہ سرخ سبحہ
جو ایک آزاد فخریہ عادل وجود کا دعواکرے گی
جو مساوات کا دعوا کرے گی
فخریہ دعویٰ

با بانگے دھل دعویٰ
ایسے آزادی جہاں سب دنیا کے باسی آزاد ہونگے 
ہر قسم کی سامراجی استعماری نہ انصاف استحصال سے پاک
اور میں نے اس کے بوسے کا جواب نہ دیا اور وہ سمجھا بھی نہیں
میں اس کے لئے ایک زندہ لاش بن چکی ہوں
منٹو کی زندہ لاش
اور شاید وہ سمجھے گا بھی نہیں
کیوں کے اس فرسودہ نظام کی ذہنیت اور اس نہ انصاف نظام کے اندر رہنے والے شاید یہ سمجھ بھی نہیں سکتے کے سچھی  آزادی کیا ہوتی ہے
مساوات کیا ہوتی ہے

رات کے پچھلے پھر یہ بات مجھ پر یان ہی کے میں تم سے بہت زیادہ محبّت کرتی ہوں
سچی محبّت
پوری محبّت
بھرپور محبّت
میں تمہارے ہر جذبے میں تمہارے ساتھ ہوں
تمہارا سچا جذبہ\میرے دوست
وہ دِن  دور نہیں جب سبحہ کا سورج سرخ ہوگا
اور روشن کرے گا اس دبتی دنیا کو
میں تمہارے ساتھ ہونگی
تمہارے اور سب مزدوروں کے ساتھ
تمہارے اور سب ہاریوں کے ساتھ ساتھ
ان سب عورتوں کے ساتھ جو اپنی مزدوری کا حق بھی پوری طرھ نہیں مانگ سکتیں
اور اپنے جسم کے بوجھ تلے خاموشی سے دبتی چلی  جاتی ہیں کیوں کہ 
یہ سامراجی استحصالی نظام انھ اپنے سخت اور جبر شکنجے میں جکڑے  ہوے ہے
 کبھی مذہب کا لبادہ پہناتا ہے کبھی جھوٹی مساوات کا
سچا  رخ نہیں دکھاتا

رات کا پچھلا پھر بیت رہا ہے
 اور سبحہ  ہونے کو ہے
ایک نی سبحہ
مساوات کی سبحہ
سرخ روشن سبحہ
 میری آزادی کی سبحہ
ہم سب کی آزادی کی سبحہ
مساوات والی سبحہ

میہرزیدی، Meherzaidi,the poet.

Translation
Seems you have slept,my loved one
The night before Dawn is long and dark
Have you not heard my suppressed scream
That which came out at such a moment of  unwanted, un bequeathed  love
The suppressed scream that is buried in man's throat since ages
It remains suppressed
That which remains suppressed in the tiller's throat
When his own produce that which his intense effort has made
Is taken away from him to be sold in the market
locked in big boxes
He and his hungry children are left back to watch, despair
Left behind in this wasted system , left behind in this Earth
My suppressed scream when he was sucking my tongue
This torture, Oh this torture
Rose like a deep wave and drowned me

Ah, this scream that comes out of a worker when he is alone in his pain
When he does not even fight for his rights
When he only cries
Because e is only adhoc in the factories of Karachi and Lahore
On daily wages
So that he does not gain
And these middle men
Who suck his blood and with their big bellies, long beards and short shalwars

And this obsolete system
On which they run their idolatory grinding machine
And I was buried in the torture of his cold kisses
In the last hours before Dawn
It seems you had slept

When will there be a new Dawn
I think incessantly
When will the Red Flag rise
When our suppressed screams will have risen out of our throats and destroyed
That Red morning
That declares a free, proud, just existence
That declares equality
Proud declaration
Loud declaration
A freedom where all the citizens of the world are free of 
every kind of imperialism, capitalistic exploitation
Free of unjust social systems
And I did not return his kiss and he did not understand
I am a dead being for him
Manto's "Alive Corpse"
But he will not understand
Because those who live in this wasted system and its unjust ways do not understand
Will never understand 
That what is the Morn of liberation
That what is Equality

And at this time f night before Dawn this truth is clear to me that I love you very much
True love
Complete love
Forceful love

I am with you in all your Passions
Your true Passion my friend!
That day is not far away when the morning sun will be Red
And it will light this suppressed world
I will be with you
I will be with you and all the workers
I will be with you and all the tillers
I will be with the women who do not even claim their rights
And they bend under the weight of their bodies
Because the imperialistic, fascist system has them  caught strongly in this fist
Sometimes dressed as religious bigotry, sometimes as false equality 
The last hours of the Night falls
And the Dawn is about to break
A new morning
A Red bright morning
An egalitarian morning
A morning of our Freedom!



Shayad tum so gaye
raat ka pichla peher baaqi hai abhi
meree dabi huee cheekh na sunee tum ne
jo aik aise piyaar ke lamhe  mein niklee thi merey halqoom se
sadiyon ki dabi huee cheekh jo insaan ke halqoom mein dabi hai
Dabi rehteee hai
Jo dehqaan ke nhalqoom mein dabi rehtee hai
Jab us ka rizq, us ki apni mehnat ka phal us par band kiya jaata hai
bande qufal
bardhi bardhi takhtiyo mein
bikne ke liye
aur woh aur us ke bhooke bacchey sirf dekhne ke liye peeche reh jaate hain
peeche
Is farsooda samaraji nizaam ki na insaaf tanha zameen mein peeche
Meri dabee huee cheekh jab woh meri zabaan choosta tha
Aik azaab, aik azaab jo aik buhat kaali gehri leher ki tarha  ubhraa aur mujh ko dibo kar le gaya
Aik aisee cheekh jo kisee mazdoor ke halqoom se nikalti hai jab woh dard ke azaab mein tanha hai
Jab woh apne haq ke liye larta bhi nahin
Sirf sisakta hai
Kiyub ke Karachi aur Lahore ki factoriun mein us ko sirf adhoc rakha gaya hai
daily wages par
taake us ko koi fayida kabhi na mile
Aur yeh middle men aarti
Us ka khoon choose choose kar khud apni moti tondon
aur apni lambi lambi darhiyon aur apne unche paainchon ko sambhalte rehain
Aur yeh farsooda nizaam
jis par yeh apne khuda ki chakki bhi chalaate hain
mein us ke thande boson ke wazan ke azaab min dabti rahi
raat ke pichle peher
tum shayad so gaye


kab subha hogi
mein yeh sochti rehti hun
kab woh surkh alam ubhre ga
jab hamare halqoom ki dabi cheekhain zor wa shor se nikal kar fana ho chuki hongi
woh surkh subha
jo aik azaad fakhriya aadil wajood ka daawa kare gi
jo masawaat ka daawa kare gi
fakhriya daawa
ba bange dehel daawa
apni aazadi jahan sab duniya ke baasi azaad honge
har qisam ki samaraji isteimaari na insaf istehsaal se paak
aur mein e us ke bose ka jawab na diya aur woh smajha bhi nahin
mein us ke liye aik zinda laash ban cuki hun
Manto ki zinda laash
 aur woh shayad samjhen gaa bhi nahin
kiyun ke is farsooda nizam ki zehniyat aur us na insaaf nizaam ke ander rehne waale yeh samjhein bhi nahin
keh subhe azaadi kiya hotee hai
masawaat kiya hoti hai


Raat ke pichle peher yeh baat mujh par ayan hai keh mein tum se buhat ziyaada muhabbat karti hun
Sachi muhabbat
Puri muhabbat
bharpur muhabbat
Mein tumhare har jazbe mein tumhare saath hun
Tumhara sacha jazba
mere dost
woh din dur nahinjab subha ka suraj surkh hoga
aur roshan kare ga is dabti dunyaan ko
Mein tumhare saath hongi
tumhare aur sab mazdooron ke saath
tumhare aur sab haariyon ke saath
Un sab auraton ke saath jo apni mazdoori ka haq bhi puri tarha nahi maang saktein
Aur apne jism ke bojh tale khamoshi se dabti chali jaati hain kiyun ke yeh samaraji istehsaali nizaam apne apne sakht aur jabir shikanje mein pakre huey hai
kabhi mazhab ka labada oehnaata hai
kabhi  jhooti masawat ka
saja rukh dikhaata hai


raat ka pichla peher beet raha hai
aur subha hone ko hai
aik nai subha masawaat ki subha
surkh roshan subha 
meri azaadi ki subha
hum sab ki azaadi ki subha
masawaat waali subha




















Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Aik Aisa Lamha....This Moment With You.

آه یہ لمحے جو گزرتے ہیں تیرے ساتھ
ابھی ایسے
تو سوچتا تھا کے میں ایسی ہوں 
vulnerable
impressionable



بہت جلدی اٹچ ہونے والی
میں نے پہلی  دفع تیری  آنکھوں کی طرف دیکھا
میں ٹھٹکی 
کیا میں اسے ٹرسٹ کر سکتی  ہوں
یہی سوال تھا میرے ذھن میں
اور سرخ تھیں وہ آنکھیں
شدّت جذبات سے شاید

ایک اندیشہ  تھا  ان میں
کیا یہ مجھے ٹرسٹ کرے گی
میں کہتے لگی  تجھ سے زندگی کی کہانی 
اور تو سنتا گیا
وہ لمحے گزر گئے
 اور پھر اس نے اس لڑکے سے کہا
 یہی  لمحے جو گزر رہے ہیں وہ سچ ہیں
 یہی حسین ہیں
آھستہ آھستہ گزرتے لمحے
رنگیں خوشبودار لمحے
 ان دونوں کے لمس سے بوجھل لمحے
 تیرا وہ ؤسسا
 جیسے جام آتا ہے مے کے پاس
 اور اس کا اثر روح میں اتر جائے
 حسین رنگین خمار آلود
ترے دھن کی مٹھاس ہے میرے ذھن میں یوں   برپا
 ایک جوشیلے نغمے کی طرھ
میں آھستہ آھستہ بھروسہ کر رہی ہوں
لکین کبھی کبھی خیال آتا ہے 
کیوں
کیوں کرتا ہے تو مجھ سے پیار
 ایک بوسیدہ جسم اور موت کا سنناتا
 جو الجھن ہے میرے ذھن میں
 جو درد ہے میرے دل میں 
 یہ کوئی اس ذات کے لئے تھوڑا ہی ہے
 یہ تو ازلی کرب ہے
انسان پے  جبر کا کرب 
جواں کندھوں پر غربت کے بوجھ کا کرب
بلکتےبچے   کے سوکھی چھاتیوں کو چوسنے کا کرب
کمزوری سے   حملوں کے گرنے کا کرب
مزدور کا فکترے کے اککیڈنٹ میں اپاہج ہونے کا کرب
 نوکری سے نکالے جانے کا کرب
پھر اپنی بوڑھی ماں کی دوا  نہ لانے کا کرب
اپنے باپ کے لاشے پی کفن قرضے پر لینے کا کرب
اپنی عزتی نفس کو چیتھڑے  ہوتے دیکھنے کا کرب
تو سمجھا کے مرے آنکھ میں یہ آنسو اس لئے ہیں کہ  میں اپنی ذات سے بہت پیار کرتی ہوں اور وہ نہیں؟
 نہیں وہ دکھ تو کب کا مدھم پر چکا
اور بھی غم ہیں زمانے میں محبّت کے سوا کسی فیض نے کیا خوب کہا تھا
جب تو نے میرے گال کو پیار سے چھوا تھا تو  میں ایک لمحے کے لیے ٹھٹکی    تھی 
 ایسے لگا کہ  میں نے جنّت  دیکھ لی
تیری مری جنّت جس میں شاید  ہم دونوں  اب سدا  رہیں اپنی باقی ماندہ زندگی میں
ہاں ہم دونوں  وہ لوگ ہیں جو اپنے ذہن اور بیلییفس کے پیچھے چلتے ہیں
تو کہتا ہے کے تم عدیلسٹ نہیں ہو مری طرھ مٹریلسٹک ہو
 میں یہ نہیں سمجھتی
میں توشاید  سارترے   کی ایران  ان دی  سول کی ہیروئن ہوں
 اسے طرھ اٹکی ہوئی
اپنی عیےاشیوں   میں
 سہیل زندگی میں بسنے  والی
ورنہ میں اگر ایکسیسٹنشیلسٹ  نہ ہوتی تو 


میں مزاروں پر رہتی
 صوفی کی ابا پہنتی  اور تیری  مالا جپتی
پر میں ایکسیسٹنشیلسٹ  ہوں
آرام پسند
 اسے لئے اس خوبصورت پنجرے میں بند ہوں
 سجے ہوے مقتل میں رہتی ہوں
مگر میں زندہ ہوں
 اور یہ احساس مجھے شاید اس سبب ہوا کہ میں درد محسوس کرتی ہوں
 جب کوئی بھوکا ننگا ننھا سا بچھ مری طرف دیکھ کر مسکراتا ہے
اور اپنے پھٹےہےتیار   کے  ساتھ کھیلتے اپنی سدا بہتے ناک پونچھتے ہوے بھاگتا ہے

اور جب کوئی چھوٹے سی بچھی تعلیم سے محرم رہ جے اس لئے کے اس کو اپنے ننھے ننھے ہاتھوں سے کام کرنا ہے
کیسے کے گندے برتن دھونے ہیں
 اپنی کمزور ماں کا ہاتھ بتانا ہے
اور اپنے چھوٹے چھوٹے بہن بھایوں کو پالنا ہے کیوں کے اس کے باپ نے
دوسری شادی کر لی ہے اور وہ نشہ بھی کرتا ہے
اور یہ لمحہ
جب تم مجھ سے  پیار کر رہے ہو
 یہ بلکل اس جام کی طرہ ہے
جس میں ڈوب کر میں صرف اپنا اور تمہارا عکس دیکھتی ہوں
 اور خوش ہوتی ہوں مدہوشی میں مست ہوتی ہوں
اور کچھ دیر کہ لئے بھول جاتی  ہوں کہ 
 بہت سے کانٹے جو دل میں چبھے ہیں وہ کسک دے رہے ہیں اور میں ان کے کرب میں سدا سے مبتلا ہوں

In Roman English

Ah yeh lamhe jo guzar rahe hain tere saath
Abhi aise
Tu sochta tha ke mein aisee hun
Vulnerable
Impressionable
Buhat jaldi attach hone waali
Mein ne pehli dafa teri aankhon ki taraf dekha
Mein thatki
Kiya mein isey trust kar sakti hun
Yahi sawal tha mere zehan mein
Aur surkh thi woh aankhein
Shidate jazbaat se shayad
Aik sada thi un mein 
Kiya yeh mujhe trust kare gi?
Mein kehene lagi tujh se zindagi ki kahani
Aur tu sunta gaya
Woh lamhe guzar gaye

Aur phir us ne us larkey  se kaha
Yeh lamhe jo guzar rahe hain woh sach hain
Yahi haseen hain
Aahista aahista guzarte lamhe
Rangeen khushboodar lamhe
Aur dono ke lams se bojhal lamhe
Tera woh aana jaise jam aata hai mei ke paas
Aur us ki rooh mein utar jaye
Haseen rangeen khumaar aalood
Tere dehan ki mithaas hai mere zehan main yun barpa
Aik josheele naghme ki tarha
Mein aahista aahista bharosa kar rahi hun
Laikin kabhi kabhi khayal aata hai
Kiyun 
Kiyun karta hai tu mujh se pioyaar
Aik boseeda jism aur maut ka sannata
Jo uljhan hai mere zehan mein
Jo dard hai mere dil mein
Yeh koi is zaat ke liye thora hi hai
Yeh to azali karb hai
Insaan pe jabar ka karb
Jawan kandhon par ghurbat ke bojh ka karb
Bilakte bacchey ke sookhi chhatiyon ko choosne ka karb
Kamzori se hamalon ke girne ka karb
Mazdoor ka factory ke accident mein apahij hone ka karb
Naukri se nikaale jaane ka karb
Phir apni boorhi maan ki dawa na laane ka karb
Apne baap ke laashe pe kafan qarz per lene ka karb
Apni izzat-e nafs ko cheetrey hotey dekhne ka karb

Tu samjha ke meri aankh mein yeh aansoo is liye hain keh mein apni zaat se buhat piyaar kartee hun aur woh nahin?
Nahin woh dukh to kabhi ka madham ho chuka
Aur bhi gham hain zamane mein muhabbat ke siwa kisee Faiz ne khub kaha tha
Jab tu ne mere gaal ko piyaar se chuwa tha to mein aik baar thatkee thee
Aise laga mein ne jannat dekh li hai
Teri meri jannat jis mein shayad hum donon  sada rahein apni baaqi maaanda zindagi mein
Haan hum donon woh log hain jo apne zehan aur apni beliefs ke peechey chaltey hain
Tu kehta hai ke tum idealist nahin ho meri tarha materialistic ho
Mein yeh nahin samajhtee
Mein to shayad Sartre ki Iron In The Soul ki heroine hun
Isiee tarha atki huiee
Apni ayyashiyon mein
Sehel zindagi mein basne waali
Warna mein Existentialist na hotee to

Mein mazaron pe rehti
Sufi ki aba a pehenti aur teri maala japti
Per mein Existentialist hun
Aram pasand
Isee liye is khubsoorat pinjerey mein band hun
Saje huey maqtal mein rehti hun
Magar mein zinda hun
Aur yeh ehsaas mujhe shayad is sabab hua ho keh mein dard mehsus karti hun
Jab koi bhooka nanga nanha sa baccha meri taraf dekh kar muskurata hai
Aur apne phatey huey tyre ke saath kheltey huey apni sadaa behtee huiee naak ponchtey huey bhaagtaa hai

Aur jab koi chhotee si bacchee taaleem se mehrum reh jaatee hai is liye keh us ko apney nanhey nanhey haathon se kaam karna hai
Kisee ke gandey bartan dhoney hain
Apni kamzor maan ka haath batana hai
Aur apne chotey chotey behn bhaayion ko paalna hai
Kiyun ke us ke baap ne doosri shaadi kar li hai
Aur woh nasha bhi karta hai

Aur yeh lamha
Jab tum mujhe piyaar kar rahe ho
Yeh bilkul us jaam ki tarha hai jis mein doob kar mein sirf apna aur tumhara aks dekhti hun
Aur khush hotee hun, madhoshi mein mast hotee hun
Aur kuch dair keh kiye bhool jaatee hun keh

Buhat se kaantey jo dil mein chubey hain woh kasak dey rahe hain aur mein un ke karb mein sada se mubtila hunhun.
Buhat se kaantey jo dil mein chubey hain woh kasak dey rahe hain aur mein un ke karb mein sada se mubtila hun.




Meherzaidi , the poet.
Translation:


Ah these moments spent with you
Now, here
You thought I am like this
Vulnerable
Impressionable
Very easily attached
Very easily fooled
When I looked at your eyes, the first time
I was startled
Can I trust him
This was my question
Those eyes were red
There was an intensity in them
I told you my life story
And you listened
Those moments passed

And then she said to him
These passing moments are the truth
These are beauteous moments
These slowly passing moments
These colorful ,fragrant moments
Moments pregnant with their touch
Your kiss is like a goblet coming to its wine
It reaches my soul
Beauteous, colourful, heady
Your sweetness is spread on my mind
Like a passionate song
I am slowly trusting you
But I think sometimes
Why?
Why do you love me
This old body and death’s silence
This confusion in my mind
This pain in my heart
This is not for my existence
Tis eternal agony!
Agony of cruelty on Man
Agony of the burden of poverty on young shoulders
Agony of a suckling sucking empty breasts
Agony of recurrent miscarriages of the weak
Agony of a disabled worker due to industrial accident
Agony of being thrown out of work
Agony of inability to get  sick mother’s medicines
Agony of taking loan to shroud father’s dead body
Agony of tattering of self respect
You thought my eyes tear because I love myself too much and he does not?
No that pain has numbed long ago
There are other agonies more profound than love’s pain ,so says Faiz

When you touched my cheek with love I startled
I felt as if I have seen heaven
Yours and mine heaven in which we both will stay forever for the remaining lives

Yes we both are such people that walk behind our beliefs and convictions
You say that I am not idealist but materialistic like you
I do not think so
I am perhaps like the heroine of Sartre’s Iron in the Soul
Suspended in my pleasures
Easy life
If I were not an existentialist…
I would live on Mazaars
Wearing Sufi’s abaya and singing your rosary
But I am existentialist
Leisure loving
That is why I am entrapped in this beautiful cage
Abide in this adorned death cell

But I am alive
This I realized because I feel pain
When a naked, hungry child smiles at me
And plays running with his torn tyre
Cleaning his eternally running nose
When a little girl cannot study because she has to work with her little hands
Wash someone else’ dirty dishes
Help her weak and frail mother
When she has to look after her little brothers and sisters
Because her father has married another woman
And he is an addict too

And this moment
When you are loving me, wooing me
Tis like  a goblet
In which I see reflections, yours and mine
I forget for a while
Those many thorns that prick my heart and cause that deep pain since eternity.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Karachi Kahani...East Wharf, West Wharf, Dreams.

A Short Story
By Meherzaidi.

Life was too rich in this stinky, oily hot sector 22 of his  mad, wild , beloved city. He stood on the pier, small, creeky, yellowish brown in the light of the setting sun. Munna came here every evening after work.He came to enjoy the sea and to meet his friend Dilawar. He counted the coins in his small hands with dirt in its creases and dirt under the finger nails. Small hands hardened and blackened. He smiled. His pink lips parted and his white teeth flashed. His smile lighted up his face. He had a wonderful smile. His boss at the mechanic shop also loved his smile. He said that all his tiredness disappeared to see him smile.So the coins were enough for today. They will buy him his food and the medicines for his ailing mother and his two siblings. One brother who was born with some injury to his head during childbirth , they said. One sister who had suffered from meningitis as the neighborhood doctor had said when she was  one year old.
The seagulls were making noises near the shore. Some people had thrown some fish and food there.The colorful kites filled one part of the sky as some children played outside the small shanty huts by the peir.He took a deep sigh as if missing the joys of kite flying and playing. He had lost his childhood. responsibilities of earning a livelihood had made him a man. He felt old already.like his father. His father, a mechanic in a workshop, now frail and ailing too.
His friend Dilawar came whizzing his bike ."Come have a ride", he said. Dilawar was eighteen, sturdy and friendly. He was also an apprentice mechanic since the age of nine. He would work the whole day and happily share tea and biscuits with Munna."Ah" ,said Munna as he sat behind Dilawar on his shiny red bike.
"Zurr, Zurr" ,Dilawar revved the bike and off they went. Whizzing past the stalls on which fish was sold. Whizzed past the women cleaning some small fishes in the baskets. Whizzed past the gatekeeper and out of the gate of the Fisheries East Wharf. Quickly passing the roads , bumpy and uneven from the wear and tear of the heavy trucks and lorries passing over them without maintainence and repair. They entered the curvy,new overhead bridge. Inching slowly past the long trailers turning and entering another lane, they turned towards the West Wharf Peir Road.
Munna chuckled in sheer delight. He knew where Dilawar was taking him. He closed his eyes and felt the cool, oily , sticky breeze on his face. He felt it on his heavy lids with their long black lashes.He took a deep breath as if devouring the air, this moment, now.His tongue flickered out like a slimy snake as he licked his lips. His thoughts dwelled on the West Wharf pier. Beautifully redone with lots of food stalls, shiny, posh restaurants, a walking path along the sea and lights.Oh how he would love to go inside. He had never been inside. He just parked outside everytime with Dilawar, watching all the beautiful people in their expensive clothes and big , shiny cars go inside.
Some day I will be eating there. Some day I will bring my wife there. When I am old and rich. He thought every time.Dilawar stopped the bike where the guards would not scold them and beckoned Munna to the side. They both sat down hunching. All the people were getting down from their cars and going inside. There were whiffs of strange exotic perfumes in the air.There were chuckles and tinkering laughter in the air.This was heaven. He savored the pleasure of the moment.This was his world , this evening, today.
Munna dreamed he was all grown up in a black suit. A black suit just like Shahrukh Khan was wearing in Don 2 poster that smiled down on him near his uncle's workshop on M A Jinnah Road. His hair was slick like the hero too but he had no gun in his hand. Munna hated guns. Guns had killed so many in his neighborhood. He hated the wails and cries of the women, men and children when the slains' bodies were brought home for the funeral preparations. He hated dead bodies. He hated the white shrouds. He hated death. He wanted his father to live , even with his weak lungs and incessant cough and bouts of white phlegm. He wanted his mother to answer him smiling even if weak and tremulous, lying on her oft repaired charpoy, when he came back from a long and hard day's work. He wanted his brother with  weak, distorted hands and inability to stand straight to live. He wanted his sister to live. Even if she could not see him clearly with both eyes, even if she could not sit straight and listen to him. He wanted all his family to live , happily with him. All his family with their weak and disabled hands, feet, eyes and bodies. All his family with their coughs, sneezes, tears and sorrows. He was happy. He wanted them to live and he hated guns and death and shrouds.
His dream expanded. He entered the gate of the "Grand Cafe" where all the beautiful men and women were going. It was a dream. Lush surroundings. Lights. Strange dancing coloured lights and beautiful people around him.Munna was happy.This was his world. Lighted, fragrant and beautiful.
Then he heard a sound. A familiar tinkering sound of a woman's voice. "Dilawar' ! He opened his eyes. He came out of the dream in an instance. She was beautiful. Tall, dressed like Priyanka Chopra, smelling , oh, so good. She stood laughing in front of them, a tall woman in shimmering dress and heels.It was like he had come into a real dream again. The lady came towards them, her shiny car parked behind her.
"Dilawar, how are you ?" she smiled and laughed at the same time. "It has been so long I saw you last" "So many years. my, my, you have become a young man" "How is your workshop" "Oh, I can see your new bike"
Overwhelmed by her barrage of statements and questions. Overwhelmed by her presence, and surprised , Dilawar's mouth had fallen open. She was the "madam" who used to get her Volkswagon tyre fixed when Dilawar was a kid. She was the "Madam" who in the first week of the month got Dilawar a "Mr Burger" burger from her doctor's salary. Dilawar moved towards her and smiled. "What are you doing here and who is this young man ? your son? Couldn't be!" She laughed her tinkering laugh ,like sweet bells coming out of a fairy tale. She was a fairy. In his dream. But Munna's eyes were open.
"Remember the burgers, Dilawar?" "Yes, but..." stammered Dilawar. Munna wanted to go in with the lady to the Grand Port.He wanted to wear that black suit of his dreams. He wanted to have his hair slicked, shiny in place and he wanted to smell good.He wanted to be her prince. Munna smiled.
"Let us go inside" , came a harsh male voice from besides the lady."They are waiting for us and we will be late". A man in a suit nudged the lady. "Yes, yes " said the lady. She wasn't smiling any more. The stars in her big , brown eyes had vanished. The beautiful smile that had made her face shine and look child like, soft and radiant vanished. Her sure-footed step faltered. Then she regained composure and took out a card from her bag. She thrust the card in Dilawar's hands. "Promise you will telephone me tomorrow" "Promise , you will come to see me tomorrow" "Promise, you will have dinner with me tomorrow, Dilawar" "Just like old days?"
Her eyes were smiling. Her face was shining , child like. Bring your friend with you too. Do bring him, she bent towards Munna. Munna's head swooned as her scent wiffed in his nose. He felt heady, in a trance.
"Oh, but we can come her tomorrow for dinner, sure, we can do that". She said, smiling. "You  telephone me and we will fix time , Dilawar". Dilawar, nodded, keeping the card in his pocket safely. And then she was gone.
Munna and Dilawar sat on the bike and came back. They did not speak to each other till Munna's home . Their journey back was like a dream. They were snug and quiet. Each was thinking about today. Each was thinking about tomorrow. Munna was already thinking about the clothes he was going to wear ,tomorrow and his hair.