Mujeeb Jaihoon’s poem celebrating the bittersweet melodies of separation and the triumph of love.
Days and nights
Keep passing by;
Your memory-kite
Yet flies high.
Hey, the coolness of my eyes!
Hey, the warmth of my heart!
Even as I hide my pain,
Absorbed in zeroes and ones,
My heart aches even more
For your compassionate smile.
The heart translates its
Pain into tears,
So that I acknowledge
Its wounded plight.
The Wise say:
Distance in love is a fortune,
Love grows more
In places away.
Hey, the sweet warrior
Who slaughtered my pride,
Who made me triumphant
Even as I lost to your love.
The blood of His Mercy flowed,
As you struck with your love-sword.
I raise no claims
For my surge;
Whatever I won
To Him belongs all praise.
Hey, the love-filled pearl!
Bestow on this empty shell
Your melodious rhyme,
To hum until you come.
March 2005. Edit March 2024