Life Has Never Been A Bed Of Roses, You See!!!

खैर कभी भी बहुत खुशनुमा तो नहीं थी ज़िन्दगी

इसलिये

आज गर ग़म से  बोझल है दिल तो कुछ नयी बात नहीं

यह एक  तसल्ली , एक बहलावा , एक ग़लत फहमी कह लिजीये जनाब
दरअसल यह नायाब सोच जीना आसान कर देती है

बस

इसलिए

गैर सी भी अगर लगती है कभी दिन, रात के  दायरे में बंधे
चौबीस घंटे

मना लेने में खुद को झिझक महसूस नहीं होती

क्यूँकि

खैर कभी भी बहुत खुशनुमा तो नहीं थी ज़िन्दगी

Life has never been a bed of roses

The thought perhaps not so pleasant

Has yet consoled the tears tripping over the lashes

And bestowed an illusion to the heathen nights

When sleep eluded my pillow

Overall a misnomer, you may say

A flawed presentation, a melancholic surrender

To what could have been way different   

But the note of acquiesce ingrained therein

Has made living so much easy

Even if the days and nights seemed alien

Belonging to someone else, as though

Just the thought of it has charmed away

The restiveness of resistance
And that is the reason why
I have more than often
Soothed myself with those inevitable submission
Let it be…
Life has after all never been a bed of roses
You see…