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Tonight

April 12, 2020Poemsavatar, chords, destiny, Divinity, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, food for thought, future past, Godhead, grief, Inspiration, mournful melody, pain, pluck, poem, poetry, Satori Publishing, spirit, suffering, timeless, Tonight, translation, truth, universal, Urdu to Englishsatoripublishing2013

Tonight do not pluck the chords of pain
All the days of suffering are concluded
Who knows the news of tomorrow?
Blurred are the lines between past and future
Who knows if another day will dawn?
Life is nothing! Apart from this night!
Divinity is possible! On this night!

Tonight do not pluck the chords of pain
Do not repeat tales about the cries of grief
Do not be in mourning over your destiny
Remove fear of the future from the heart
Do not be tearful over the life past
Do not ask for stories about the time of sorrow
Do not ask, all the complaining is done
Tonight do not pluck the chords of pain.

( my translation of a poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz ).

Tonight

August 5, 2019Poemscasually, grief, heartache, love, luscious, memory, original, passion, personal, poem, poetry, prayer, romantic, Satori Publishing, spirit, timeless, Tonight, universalsatoripublishing2013

Tonight a glacier freezes my burning heart
You pierced it so casually with a careless dart
Once our hearts beat together but now they’re far apart
Women have got saying goodbye down to a fine art
The end is always so different from the start.

Tonight a desert spreads to every corner of my bed
Next to me is the empty pillow on which you once lay your head
Soon someone else will feast on your luscious body instead
Our love was brief but the endless grief fills me with dread
Tomorrow’s sun will never warm my soul that is now dead.

Tonight I lie awake in memory of you
The thoughts that chill me like icy dew
‘You only loved me half as much as I love you’
‘I was just a phase you were going through’
My love, how am I going to live without you?

Tonight

October 24, 2013Lyrics/Songsdread, end of the line, facing facts, grief, heartache, icy dew, love, passion, regret, rock and roll, romantic, saddest song, Satori Publishing, timeless, Tonight, universalsatoripublishing2013

Tonight I can sing the saddest song
Woke up this morning to find my baby gone
She phoned to say ‘There’s no point in going on
Might as well finish it while our love is strong’
Oh, Cherry, Cherry baby, you’ve got it all wrong.

Tonight I lie awake in memory of you
The thoughts that chill me like icy dew
‘You only loved me half as much as I love you’
‘I was just a phase you were going through’
Sweet, sweet Cherry, how am I going to live without you?