Here’s a Ghazal that I wrote about a year ago (before which I had taken a two year break from writing Urdu poetry), hence the Ghazal is nothing really great, though some couplets are nice, but its over-all very light-hearted and contains easy to understand language..
mire va’adoN ko gin_naa chhoR do tum
muhabbat ko parakhnaa chhoR do tum
Q
wafaa kaa daavaa kis se kar rahee ho
mujhe aise banaanaa chhoR do tum
aur us par poochhti ho “kyaa hua hai?”
aray! ghairoN se milnaa chhoR do tum
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vahaaN par dostii bas naam kii hai
vahaaN kaa aanaa-jaanaa chhoR do tum
bichhaRne ki jo dil meiN Thaan lii hai
bahaane par bahaanaaa, chhoR do tum
hamaaraa rishta ik ummeed par thaa
magar ab vo fasaanaa chhoR do tum
mujhe ma’aloom hai anjaam-e-ulfat
vafaa ke geet gaanaa chhoR do tum!
agar qismat meiN fitne hi likhe haiN
to har aafat pe ronaa chhoR do tum
ye zauq-e-shaayari to Theek hai par
ghazal ko nazm kahnaa chhoR do tum
Khudaa kaa Khauf mujhko bhi hai yaaro!
mujhe kaafir bulaanaa chhoR do tum
aur ab maqta arz hai…
sanamkhaanoN meiN ‘tanhaa’ kuchh nahiiN hai
vahaaN par sar jhukaanaa chhoR do tum
August/05/2006