AND SOME ONE , AS USUAL, MOVES TO HIS DREAMLESS BED CHAMBER

                                                                              

( Night time view near Marine Drive Mumbai )
(Mobile photograph Autar Mota )

To this photo , i am adding lines from the urdu  poem  " PARIS "  by Faiz Ahmed Faiz with wonderful translation by Shiv K. Kumar 

Door puss manzar e aflaaq mein,

Dundhlaane lagey,

Azmat e raftaa ke nishaan,

Pesh manzar mein,

Kissi saaya e deewar se liptaa huva saaya ho koyee

Doosrey saaye ki mauhoom si I umeed Liye ,

Roz marah ki tarah ,

Zer e lab,

Shar'h e bedardi e ayyaam ki Tamheed Liye,

Aur koyee ajnabi,

Inn Roshniyon saayon se katraata huva,

Apney bekhwaab shabistaan ki taraf jaata huva..

(Faiz Ahmed Faiz)

The vestiges of past glory

Began to look hazy against the skyline

And there,

In front of the eye,

Some shadow embraced a wall's shadow

Cherishing the faint hope of another shadow..

An everyday occurrence Prefaces a mute comment

On the harshness of time..

And some stranger

Skirting these lights,

These shadows,

Presses on towards his dreamless bed chamber..

(Autar Mota )

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