A dusky moonrise I chance
The heavenly lord suspended in the starry sky,
So divine his aura,
His glow puts me in a trance.
Dazed I gaze,
Transfixed, rooted....I ponder.
What does it take to win his love?

                            -Prats

Yeh mehlon, yeh takhton, yeh taajon ki duniya

Yeh insaan ke dushman samaajon ke duniya

Yeh daulat ke bhookhen riwajon ke duniya

Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaayen tho kya hai?

Har ek jism hai ghayal, hare ek rooh pyaasi

Nigahon me uljhan, dilon me udaasi

Yeh duniya hai ya aalam-e-badhawaasi

Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaaye tho kya hai?

Jahan ek khilona hai insaan ke hasti

Yeh basti hai murda paraston ki basti

Yahan par tho jeevan se hai maut sasti

Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaaye tho kya hai?

Jawani bhatakti hai badkaar bankar

Jawan jism sajte hai bazaar bankar

Yahan pyar hota hai vyapar bankar

Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaaye tho kya hai?

Yeh duniya jahaan aadmi kuch nahi hai

Wafa kuch nahi, dosti kuch nahi hai

Yahan pyar ki qadr kuch nahi hai

Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaaye tho kya hai?

Jalado ise phoonk daalo yeh duniya

Mere saamne se hatado ye duniya

Ye tumhari hai tum hi sambhalo yeh duniya

Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaaye tho kya hai?

                                               -Sahir Ludhianvi

Dekha Hai Zindagi Ko Kuch Itna Kareeb Se

Chehre Tamaam Lagne Lage Hain Ajeeb Se

Es Rengti Hayaat Ka Kab Tak Uthain Baar

Bimaar Ab Ulhajne Lage Hain Tabeeb Se

Har Gaam Par Hai Majmaa-E-Ush-Shaaq Muntazir

Maqtal Ki Raah Milti Hai Ko-E-Habib Se

Es Tarah Zindagi Ne Diya Hai Hamara Sath

Jaise Koi Nibaah Raha Ho Raqeeb Se

Aey Rooh-E-Asar Jaag, Kahan So Rahi Hai Tu

Aawaz De Rahe Hain Payambar Saleeb Se

                                           - Sahir Ludhianvi

Kabhi kabhi mere dil mein khayal aata hai

Ke zindagi teri zulfon ki naram chhaon mein
Guzarne paati to shadaab ho bhi sakti thi
Yeh teergi jo meri zeest ka muqaddar hai
Teri nazar ki shu'aon mein kho bhi sakti thi

Ajab na tha ke main begana-e-alam ho kar
Tere jamal ki re'naiyon mein kho rahta
Tera gudaaz badan teri neem-baaz aankhen
Inhi haseen fasano mein maho rahta

Pukarti mujhe jab talkhiyan zamane ki
Tere labon se halawat ke ghoont pee leta
Hayat cheekti phirti barhena sar aur main
Ghaneri zulfon ke saaye mein chhup ke jee leta

Magar yeh ho na saka aur ab yeh aalam hai
Ke too nahin tera gham teri justuju bhi nahin
Guzar rahi kuch is tarah zindagi jaise
Ise kisike sahare ki arzoo bhi nahin

Zamane bhar ke dhukhon ko laga chuka hoon gale
Guzar raha hoon kuch anjaani rahguzaron se
Muhib saaye meri simt bharte aata hai
Hayat-o-maut ke pur haul khar zaron se

Na koi jadah na manzil na roshni ka suraag
Bhatak rahi hai khyalon mein zindagi meri
Inhi khyalon mein rah jaoonga kabhi kho kar
Main janta hoon meri humnafas magar yunhi
Kabhi kabhie mere dil mein khayal aata 

                                                    -  Sahir Ludhianvi

"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."

                    - Douglas Adams

List'ning their fear, I could not say "Amen",
When they did say "God bless us!"

But wherefore could I not pronounce "Amen"?
I had most need of blessing, and "Amen"
Stuck in my throat.

Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast -


                  - William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, Scene, II

What hands are here? Hah! They pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune's oceans wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incardine,
Making the green one red.

                                       - William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 2.