The Romantics

Ye Dagh dagh ujala, ye shab-gazida sahar

Vo intizar tha jia ka, ye vo sahar to nahin,

Ye vo sahar to nahin jis ki arzu lekar

Chale the yar ke mil – jaegi kahin na kahin

Falak ke dasht men taron ki akhiri manzil

Kahin to hoga shab-e sust mauj ka sahil

Kahin to jake rukega safine-e-gham-edil.

This leprous daybreak, dawn night’s fangs have mangled –

This is not that long – looked – for break of day,

Not that clear dawn in quest of which those comrades

Set out, believing that in heaven’s wide void

Somewhere must be the stars’ last halting – place

Somewhere the verge of night’s slow – washing tide,

Somewhere an anchorage for the ship of heartache.