Ek Purana Dost Mila

Ek Purana Dost Mila

Chaalees baras baadh 

ek bachpan ka dost mila

Tho usey bhi tha 

humse koi gila

Kehne laga 

ye kya haal banaa rakkha hai apna

Ye nahin hai 

jo humne dekha tha tere liye sapna

Baal tere ud gaye

Daanth tere sad gaye

Bibi tujhe chod gayi

Bacche bichad gaye

Ek pal ke liye tho hum ye sun kar 

mushkil me pad gaye

Phir humne unse kaha dat kar

Hum zindagi se bhid gaye

Aaj kuch bhi nahin hume daraatha

Dukh se aankhen nahin bhar-aatha

Dukh-Sukh jhelna seekha hai

Dono pe hasna seekha hai

Hum zindagi se bhid gaye

Aur mauth se bhi lad gaye

Haar nahin maani ab thak

Ab aisi oonchai par chad gaye



English Translation:
 I Met An Old Friend


After 40 years

I met a childhood friend

He too had

A complaint about me


He started to say,

"What have you done with yourself?

This is not the dream we had for you.


Your hair has blown away

Your teeth have rotted

Your wife has left you

And your children have moved away!"


For a moment, upon hearing this

I was in a fix

Then I told him confidently

"I have taken on life!


Now nothing scares me

Sadness does not bring me to tears

I have learned to bear happiness and grief

I have learned to laugh in the face of both


I have taken on life

I have even fought  death

I have not admitted defeat

I have scaled such heights!"

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