ऐसी दुन्या जिस में हम तुम
ज़ुल्म-ो-सितम की चक्की में
पिस्ते हैं और पिसकर भी हम
शुक्र करें, मजबूरी है,
ये कैसी मजबूरी है।
- अनवर नदीम (1937-2017)
Compulsion
Such a wretched world
Wherein
We are ever grinded
Between the two sides of a mill-stone
And even
After the tedious process
Haplessly
Thank God!
Shit! are we here
Destined to constraint and compulsion
Nay, coercion, I say?
How to explain -
In the damn world
This oppression
And tyranny of fate?
- Anwar Nadeem (1937-2017)
(Translated from Urdu by Ghulam Rizvi 'Gardish')
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