Budhapa

kahte hain umr-e-rafta kabhi lautti nahin ja mai-kade se meri jawani utha ke la tis said this fleeting life once gone never returns go to the tavern and bring back my youth again

safar pichhe ki jaanib hai qadam aage hai mera main budha hota jata hun jawan hone ki khatir

main to 'munir' aaine mein khud ko tak kar hairan hua ye chehra kuchh aur tarah tha pahle kisi zamane mein

dil fasurda to hua dekh ke us ko lekin umr bhar kaun jawan kaun hasin rahta hai

ab jo ek hasrat-e-jawani hai umr-e-rafta ki ye nishani hai meer taqi meer turns “desire for youth” into evidence of aging: you only miss youth when it is no longer yours. the couplet links present longing with past loss, making nostalgia itself a mark of time’s departure. the emotional core is quiet regret—feeling youth not as a memory, but as an ache that proves it’s gone.

gudaz-e-ishq nahin kam jo main jawan na raha wahi hai aag magar aag mein dhuan na raha no longer am i young, love's passion still remains the fire as yet burns, no smoke tho it contains

maut ke sath hui hai meri shadi so 'zafar' umr ke aakhiri lamhat mein dulha hua main

waqt-e-piri shabab ki baaten aisi hain jaise khwab ki baaten in old age talk of youth now seems to be just like the stuff of dreams the poet expresses how distant and unreal the past feels when one reaches old age. recalling the vigor and energy of youth becomes a melancholic experience, as those memories seem so far removed from the current reality of frailty that they resemble a fleeting dream rather than actual life events.

piri mein walwale wo kahan hain shabab ke ek dhup thi ki sath gai aaftab ke

talatum aarzu mein hai na tufan justuju mein hai jawani ka guzar jaana hai dariya ka utar jaana

khamosh ho gain jo umangen shabab ki phir jurat-e-gunah na ki hum bhi chup rahe

rukhsat hua shabab to ab aap aae hain ab aap hi bataiye sarkar kya karen

ab wo piri mein kahan ahd-e-jawani ki umang rang maujon ka badal jaata hai sahil ke qarib

piri mein shauq hausla-farsa nahin raha wo dil nahin raha wo zamana nahin raha