Friday, September 20, 2013

Page 440: “Products of the Imagination”. Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). Translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.



Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). Translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.

Page 440: “Products of the Imagination”

You were not made for this earth, or the heavens

Your existence is only for the sake of a fable nowadays

What will be accrued by looking back at our garden oasis?

That tree branch which existed for nesting no longer stands

Don’t risk all for sincerity from inside the mercenary world

Look as if this concept, that of genuineness within partiality, was made for promised lands then, or, 
these days, human innovations!

You were not made for this earth, or the heavens

Your existence is only for the sake of a fable nowadays.

Sahir Ludhianvi (1921-1980). Translated from the Hindi-Urdu by Alverston & Associates.


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