Main Tenu Fer Milaan Gi

Main Tenu Fer Milaan Gi
Kithey? Kis Tarah? Pata Nai
Shayad Terey Takhayul Di Chinag Ban K
Terey Canvas Tey Utraan Gi
Ya Khowrey Terey Canvas Dey Utey
Ikk Rahasmayi Lakeer Ban Ke
Khamosh Tenu Tak Di Rawaan Gi

Yaa Khowrey Sooraj Di Lau Ban K
Terey Rangaan Wich Ghulaan Gi
Yaa Rangaan Diyan Bahwaan Wich Baith K
Terey Canvas Nuu Walaan Gi
Pata Nai Kiss Tarah? Kithey?
Par Tenu Zaroor Milaan Gi

Yaa Khowrey Ikk Chashma Bani Howaan Gi
Tey Jeevan Jharneyaan Da Paani Udd-da
Main Paani Diyaan Boondaan
Terey Pindey Tey Malaan Gi
Tey Ikk Thandak Jahi Ban K
Teri Chhaati Dey Naal Lagaan Gi
Main Hor Kujh Nai Jaandi
Par Aena Jaandi
Keh Waqt Jo Vii Karey Ga
Ay Janam Mairey Naal Turey Ga

Ay Jism Mukda Hai
Tay Sab Kujh Muk Jaanda
Par Chaityaan Dey Dhaagey
Kaainaati Kana Dey Hundey
Main Onhaan Kana Nuu Chunaan Gi
Dhaageyaan Nuu Walaan Gi
Tey Tenu Main Fair Milaan Gi…

-AMRITA PRITAM

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I will see you again
I don’t know when or where
Perhaps I’ll appear on your canvas
A figment of your thoughts
Or I’ll see you in silence
As a hidden line there

Perhaps I’ll become a ray of sunshine
And enter your canvas paints
Or sit in your colorful arms
And see the canvass you paint
I don’t know when or where
But I’ll surely see you again

Perhaps I‘ll become a spring
And rub on your chest
The droplets of water springing from it
Thus I will give you my love
Holding your chest to mine
I know nothing else, only this:
Whatever may happen
I will be with you

When the body perishes everything goes with it
But the threads of memory are woven with lasting images
I will gather all these and weave the threads again
And surely I will be meeting with you once again.