from You Tell Us What to Do
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz (Translation by Agha Shahid Ali)
When we launched life
on the river of grief,
how vital were our arms, how ruby our blood.
With a few strokes, it seemed,
we would cross all pain,
we would soon disembark.
That didn’t happen.
In the stillness of each wave we found invisible [...]
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“When we launched life on the river of grief…” Faiz Ahmed Faiz
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