#mehreenkhan

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

Dur tak chaye the badal aur kahin saya na tha / Is tarah barsaat ka mausam kabhi aya na tha

When Parveen Shakir said

Kuch to tere mausam hi mujhe raas kam aye / Aur kuch meri miti main baghawat bhi buhat thi

And when Rahat Indori wrote

♡ wo khiltay gulab jesa tha

♡ ranjish hi sahi

♡ rog ese bhi gham-e-yar se lag jaty hain

♡ aah ko chahiye ek umer

♡ zara phir se kehna

♡ kuj unj vi rahwan okhian san (Punjabi)

♡ humesha dair kar deta hun main

♡ aj zikr-e-gulaab rehne do

♡ Ab jo aaye ho to thehro

♡ kabhi kitabon mein phool rakhna

♡ hosh walon ko khabar kya

♡ kar raha tha gham-e-jahan ka hisab

♡ shab-e-intezaar koi to ho

♡ zindagi khaak na thi

♡ waqt mila to sochen gy

♡ silsilay tor gaya

♡ lag ja galey

♡ aj jane ki zid na karo

♡ chehre pe mere zulf ko

♡ is qadar pyaar se ae jaan-e-jahaan

♡ gham-e-ashiqi tera shukriya

♡ kya khazane meri jaan hijar ki shab

♡ main khayal hoon kisi aur ka

♡ apki yaad ati rahi raat bhar

♡ niyat-e-shoq bhar na jaye kahin

♡ tum ko dekha to yeh khayal aya

♡ hum roz mila karte thay

♡ usay bhool ja

♡ wo jo hum mein tum mein qarar tha

♡ jo bache hain sang samet lo

𝑀𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑏𝑜𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠

♡ Childhoodcore

♡ Purana Lahore

♡ Humsafar

♡ Mahira Khan

♡ Rooftop

♡ Meethi Eid

♡ Chaand Raat

♡ Eyes

♡ Dupatta

♡ Coffee

♡ Desi love languages

♡ Tea/chai

Muddat ke baad aj usse dekh kar Munir

Ik baar dil to dharka magar phir sambhal gaya

The telephone stretched between us

like a chain of jasmine,

now it has become a noose.

I used to smoke and drink my coffee with your voice

it was essential to my life,

A spring, a parasol,

that brought me

joy and the smell of wilderness.

Ahmad Faraz