O Lovely One_ Farrukh Ahmad

O Lovely One

Farrukh Ahmad

O lovely One! Open your door at this hour of night

Your glance is eloquent, your neck’s gesture mysterious,

The unknown domain that I could not discover yet

You keep that secret in a tight confusing brassiere

If there is any mistake forget it tonight.

The undiscovered region where you kept the dreamy obsession

Creates some mystic gestures in your eyes, chin and breast’

My humming birds flew away for that domain long ago.

And that endless journey has now stopped at your door;

You want to conceal your bosom’s beauty from that man;

O my beauty! Why you keep aloof with unreasonable callousness!

You should not retreat in this dark strangeness.

See, you could not hide the beauty you stored so long;

It has kept me enamoured beyond your knowledge.

Translat by Abdur Rashid Khan