Ghalib by Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Author:Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: POE009000, Poetry/Asian, LCO004020, Literary Collections/Asian/Indic
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2017-03-14T04:00:00+00:00

When our life passed in this way, Ghalib,

Will even we remember that we used to have a God?

Then when I feel extremely anxious and full of annoyance, I recite this line and fall silent:

Oh sudden death, what are you waiting for?!

Let no one think that I’m dying of grief over my own dismal and ruined state. The sorrow that I feel, I can’t at all express; but I can give a hint of it. From among those of the English community who were murdered at the hands of those disgraced [“black-faced”] black ones, one was my patron, and one was my well-wisher, and one my friend, and one my supporter, and one my pupil. Among the Hindustanis, some dear ones, some friends, some pupils, some beloveds. Thus every one of them was mingled with the dust. How harsh is the mourning for one dear one! He who would be a mourner for so many dear ones—how could his life not be difficult? Alas! So many friends died that now when I die, there won’t even be anyone left to mourn for me.

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