Umr guzregi imtehaan mein kya
daag hi denge mujhko daan mein kya
Meri har baat be-asar rahi,
nuks hai kuch mere bayan mein kya
Mujhko koi tokta bhi nahi,
yahi hota hai khandaan mein kya
Apni mahrumiyan chupate hai,
hum gharibon ki an ban mein kya
Khuda ko jaana judaa zamane se,
aa gaya tha mere gumaan mein kya
Shaam hi se dukan-e-did hai band ,
nahi nuksaan tak dukaan mein kya
Ae mere shab-o-sham-e-dil ki shafak,
tu nahati hai ab bhi baan mein kya
Bolte kyun nahi mere haq mein,
aable pad gaye zabaan mein kya
Khamoshi keh rahi kaan mein kya
aaraha hai koi mere gumaan mein kya
Dil ki aati hai jisko dhyaan bohot,
khud hi aata hai apne dhyaan mein kya
Wo mile toh unse puchna hai mujhe,
ab bhi main hoon unke amaan mein kya
Yun jo takta hai aasman ko tu,
koi rehta hai asmaan mein kya
Hai naseeb-e-bahaar gard alud,
khaakh udti hai uss makaan mein kya
Ye mujhe chain kyun nahi padta
ek hi shaks tha jahaan mein kya?
Aap ki yaad aati rahi raat bhar
Chandni dil dukhati rahi raat bhar
Gaah jalti hui gaah bujhti hui
Sham-e-gham jhilmilati rahi raat bhar
Koi khushbu badalti rahi pairahan
Koi tasvir gaati rahi raat bhar
Phir saba saya-e-shakh-e-gul ke tale
Koi qissa sunati rahi raat bhar
Jo na aaya use koi zanjir-e-dar
Har sada par bulati rahi raat bhar
Ek ummid se dil bahalta raha
Ik tamanna satati rahi raat bhar
-Faiz Ahmed Faiz
There are thousands of poets and then there is Faiz. Once you start reading him there's no going back. Also, what a beautiful ghazal this is.
Appendix: Hope and the Absurd in the Work of Franz Kafka from The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, Albert Camus
DISNEY REVIVAL ERA (2000-) | Renaissance Era | Classical Era
here it is a collection of poems about hope and or holding on despite everything !
I Am Not Ready To Die Yet by Aracelis Girmay
A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde
Snowdrops by Louise Glück
Most Days I Want to Live by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Insha’Allah by Danusha Laméris
A Good Day by Kait Rokowski
Invitation by Mary Oliver
Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón
Tommorow is a Place by Sanna Wani
The World Has Need of You by Ellen Bass
Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower by Rainer Maria Rilke
To the Young Who Want to Die by Gwendolyn Brooks
Night Walk by Franz Wright
Sorrow is Not My Name by Ross Gay
Everything Is Waiting For You by David Whyte
The Letter by Linda Greg
Testify by Eve L. Ewing
Every Day as a Wide Field, Every Page by Naomi Shihab Nye
My friend: [recommends me a show]
Me: [watches the show and gets my heart broken]
Me: Why WOULD YOU MAKE ME WATCH IT? YOU KNOW IT WOULD BREAK MY HEART!
My friend: Because I know you're the kind of person who likes to get his heart broken.
Me:
1946 Ferrari
Me running from the emotions this quote is making me feel.
-William Wordsworth
-What are you?-To define is to limit. They call me voltage. Because I've got a lot of potential, but I'm mostly negative.
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