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Sahir Ludhianvi - Taj Mahal

2014-11-10 1 Dailymotion

The Taj, mayhap, to you may seem, a mark of love supreme <br />You may hold this beauteous vale in great esteem; <br />Yet, my love, meet me hence at some other place! <br />How odd for the poor folk to frequent royal resorts; <br />‘Tis strange that the amorous souls should tread the regal paths <br />Trodden once by mighty kings and their proud consorts. <br />Behind the facade of love my dear, you had better seen, <br />The marks of imperial might that herein lie screen'd <br />You who take delight in tombs of kings deceased, <br />Should have seen the hutments dark where you and I did wean. <br />Countless men in this world must have loved and gone, <br />Who would say their loves weren't truthful or strong? <br />But in the name of their loves, no memorial is raised <br />For they too, like you and me, belonged to the common throng. <br /> <br />These structures and sepulchres, these ramparts and forts, <br />These relics of the mighty dead are, in fact, no more <br />Than the cancerous tumours on the face of earth, <br />Fattened on our ancestor's very blood and bones. <br />They too must have loved, my love, whose hands had made, <br />This marble monument, nicely chiselled and shaped <br />But their dear ones lived and died, unhonoured, unknown, <br />None burnt even a taper on their lowly graves. <br /> <br />This bank of Jamuna, this edifice, these groves and lawns, <br />These carved walls and doors, arches and alcoves, <br />An emperor on the strength of wealth, Has played with us a cruel joke. <br />Meet me hence, my love, at some other place.<br /><br />Sahir Ludhianvi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/taj-mahal-13/

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