gai wo baat ki ho guftugu to kyunkar ho
kahe se kuchh na hua phir kaho to kyunkar ho

gone is the time i used to think, how will i speak with you
but talking did not help at all, now say what can i do

hamare zehn mein us fikr ka hai nam visal
ki gar na ho to kahan jaen ho to kyunkar ho

just union with my loved one is, now all that bothers me
where will i go were not to be, if were, how can it be

adab hai aur yahi kashmakash to kya kije
haya hai aur yahi gu-magu to kyunkar ho

what can i do, this dilemma, am bound by courtesy,
when she is coy, reluctant too, how will love come to be

tumhin kaho ki guzara sanam-paraston ka
buton ki ho agar aisi hi khu to kyunkar ho

how will these idol-worshippers survive, you must comment
how can it ever be if idols have this temperament

ulajhte ho tum agar dekhte ho aaina
jo tum se shahr mein hon ek do to kyunkar ho

you, at your own reflection in the mirror, take offense
were more here, one or two like you, say what would happen thence

jise nasib ho roz-e-siyah mera sa
wo shakhs din na kahe raat ko to kyunkar ho

a person in whose destiny the days are dark and bleak
if night he does not deem as day, then what else would he speak

hamein phir un se ummid aur unhen hamari qadr
hamari baat hi puchhen na wo to kyunkar ho

for me to harbour hope from her, for her to care for me
if she won't even ask my will, how can these ever be

ghalat na tha hamein khat par guman tasalli ka
na mane dida-e-didar jo to kyunkar ho

illusion of contentment by her letter may be true
without her sight my eyes rebelled, what was it i could do

batao us mizha ko dekh kar ki mujh ko qarar
wo nish ho rag-e-jaan mein faro to kyunkar ho

at seeing those eyelashes say, how peace and harmony
if in life's vein, those knives embed, can ever come to me

mujhe junun nahin 'ghaalib' wale ba-qaul-e-huzur
firaq-e-yar mein taskin ho to kyunkar ho

i am not frenzied gaalib for, as says his majesty
"in parting from one's paramour, how peace can ever be?"