meray parmaatma,
meri aatmaan jeh tun mainu ditta hai
duuwaan hi dhuwaan hai -
pyaar dian jaldian yaadaastaan nay
jo kaday vi khtam nahin hondian nay.
jis pal sada janam honda hai
ansi ohna nu jalaana shuroo karday haan
tay jalaanday rehnday haan
jad tak k dhoowaan
dhoowain di hi tarah khatam nahin ho jaanda nay.
-tr. Ravi Kopra
My God, the Soul
My God, the soul
you gave me
is smoke -
from never ending burnings
of memories of love.
The minute we are born
we start burning them
and so on
until the smoke
dies, like smoke.
-Yehuda Amichai