My Heart My Traveler Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

We again part ways
From the love's street,
My traveler my heart
That the decree hath come
That exile be longer
From home alienate
Nights of separation
Hath no sight in the end.
The stranger's blistered feet,
Knock this door knock that
That we find some acquaint
Talk here and there, now and oft
And ask where the home is,
Drag nights to the days
And days to the nights
Sad dusks your drink
Lonely mornings your greet,
We would have endured this all
Hath we been in some count,
We would have given our soul
Hath but it ever been once.

-A rendition of the poem ‘Merey Dil Merey Musafir' by Faiz Ahmad Faiz.

On my transfer from Gilgit-Baltistan.

Sadiqullah Khan
Gilgit
September 9,2015.