Water Hyacinth
No one ever feared losing me,
No one ever pulled me close with care.
“No, I need only you,”
No one has ever said that to me either.
I’m just a water hyacinth, drifting on the flood,
Flowing along with the current, endlessly,
As if still searching for the shore of peace.
Defiant Heart
I’ve accepted it,
But my defiant heart hasn’t.
It still can’t accept your departure.
It still searches for you through the pages of every memory,
It searches for you in all my old habits.
The Fool’s Faith
The one who never valued you while you stayed,
Won’t look for you when you’re gone that’s natural.
The one who never understood your love,
How could he ever understand your pain?
You truly remain a fool, Khubayb,
Yet you call yourself kind-hearted.
Name’s Own
There’s no need for such toxic people in life,
Who are “yours” by name, “dear” only by need.
I don’t need too many people in my life,
I just want a few,
But they must be true and genuine.
Opposite
I deeply wished to have you,
Yet I lost you.
I never wished to deceive you,
Yet, in the end, I was deceived.
Life seems exactly the opposite of what I hoped for.
Disconnected
Just as a dead person has no link to the world,
Just as the departed have no bond with this life,
So am I disconnected from you.
Yet we once promised,
Our bond would never break, we’d stay together till death.
Victory and Defeat
Perhaps you’ve won in the game of distance,
That’s why my eyes no longer see you.
But tell me, if I truly lost in love,
Why does my heart still feel you?
Cruel Fate
The one I never imagined living without,
Even she had to be let go.
This cruel act of fate,
Has taken away happiness from my life.
Silence
And then, I became silent.
They said, I’ve changed.
But only I know,
How many wounds I’ve endured,
And how I’ve learned to stay quietly alone.
Rule
At birth, I was the center of everyone.
Their smiles and tears revolved around me.
With time, perhaps they forgot me, they drifted away.
One day I too shall vanish, leaving only memories behind.
My birth once brought joy for a few days,
Those memories will also stay for a while,
Then they too will fade, just as I did.
That’s the rule, that’s how it is meant to be,
That’s how it always happens.