One Night’s Affair_ Farrukh Ahmad

One Night’s Affair

 Farrukh Ahmad

A lovely bright dew-drops on pomegranate -branch

One night told her confidante-its flower,

‘If I get one more night’s lease of life

Then I shall be able to fulfill all my desires

What respite has the life on the green life

That accumulates at dusk and evaporates with the day’s heat?

One night and the morning – within this short time

Who can decorate the house to her heart’s content?

The Pomegranate- flower listened to her and than replied,

‘I also have much longing for pleasures and music;

If life exists, like planet Jupiter, for a long time;

Then there remains no discontent for unfulfilled hope.’’

The dew-drop could not find any solace in these words;

and her dejected self began to shake in tears.

Translat by Abdur Rashid Khan