Lyrics of Life

I wish the night was short, like my hair, And that it was bright, like my heart, And I could tie the distance between us with my life. These...

बेख़बर कुर्सियां आँख मलती रहीं बस्तियाँ बेगुनाहों की जलती रहीं आदमियत मोहब्बत शराफ़त वफ़ा नागिनें आस्तीनों में पलती रहीं दो बदन जितने नज़दीक...

पक गई हैं आदतें बातों से सर होंगी नहीं कोई हंगामा करो ऐसे गुज़र होगी नहीं इन ठिठुरती उँगलियों को इस लपट पर सेंक लो धूप अब घर की किसी दीवार प...

1. I grant you refuge in invocation and prayer. I bless the neighborhood and the minaret to guard them from the rocket from the moment it is...

A poet sits in a coffee shop, writing. The old lady thinks he is writing a letter to his mother, the young woman thinks he is writing a lett...

Oh rascal children of gaza, You who constantly disturbed me  with your screams under my window, You who filled every morning  with rush and ...

When I left, I left my childhood in the drawer and on the kitchen table. I left my toy horse in its plastic bag. I left without looking at t...