Coming to This

Coming to This

We have done what we wanted.
We have discarded dreams, preferring the heavy industry  
of each other, and we have welcomed grief
and called ruin the impossible habit to break.

And now we are here.
The dinner is ready and we cannot eat.  
The meat sits in the white lake of its dish.  
The wine waits.

Coming to this
has its rewards: nothing is promised, nothing is taken away.  
We have no heart or saving grace,
no place to go, no reason to remain. 


--- Mark Strand

Safar Mein Dhoop

Safar mein dhoop to hogi
Jo chal sako to chalo

Sabhi hai bhid mein tum bhi
Nikal sako to chalo

Safar mein dhoop to hogi
Jo chal sako to chalo

Kisi ke waste rahe kaha badalti hai
Tum apne aap ko khud hi
Badal sako to chalo safar mein
Dhoop to hogi jo chal sako to chalo

Yaha uajalo ki kimat chukani padti hai
Tum apni aag mein suraj sajal sako to jalo
Safar mein dhoop to hogi
Jo chal sako to chalo

Yaha kisi ko koi rashta nahi deta
Mujhe girake agar tum
Sambhal sako to chalo

Sabhi hai bhid mein tum bhi

Nikal sako to chalo
Safar mein dhoop to hogi
Jo chal sako to chalo.