उसके चेहरे की रौनक

उसके चेहरे की रौनक, खूबसूरती का पैगामउन कातिल निगाहों का इंतकाम, ये दुनिया भी देखेगी।

//My perspective//From where I stood, she was beautiful.I gawked at her face, the shayaris were dutiful,While my words, adjectives failed me,Her eyes fell upon me, my world of gleeStealing glances through the corners of my eyeHer radiant beauty, permeating my soulless bodyGiving me a heart that beat by her nameA rogue heart, a heart so rowdy

इस मुकाम पर न फेरो अपने नैनन करो कुर्बान इस प्यासे को।प्यार का गुनाह कबूल करते हैं,न लूटो ये हक़ हमसे, इस कुर्बानी का चैन।

//Her perspective//Batting my eyes, I hear his poetryHe phrases his words for my 'beauty'His true worth, reflects through my gemsHis lustre, yet his futile attemptsI'd given my heart to him, long backI assure him with the sparkle in my eyesYet he only notices my long lashes,I watch his sincerity, as he metaphorically dies

यूं तो तुम करोगे दीवानगी का छलावा,मरोगे इस अदा, इस अंदाज पर।उस दीवाने के दिल को हम दिल दे बैठे,बन गयी उस दीवाने की दीवानी।

I haven't felt her cold eyes fall upon me since my wordsI haven't seen the heat, the summer of love upon my fervent soulAs the fire keeps on burning through my tongueAnd those words which bind it to my beauty.

Madhav Menon