When I Am Free Today, A Urdu Ghazal By Afzal Khan In English Translation Poem by Ravi Kopra

When I am free today, tomorrow's problems I will pursue
If solved, their results I will pursue

Meetings and separations must not go to extremes
How does my love answer today, I will pursue

People will say I go to the extremes
But lovers' fight here tomorrow I will pursue

The boaters will pay me fine if they want to cross the river
Drowning their ships in the river otherwise, I will pursue

I will meet her somewhere, that heartless lady
If not, like the potter's moving wheel I will pursue

A branch of this tree extends to the neighbor's courtyard
The problem who will get the fruit, with him I will pursue

(An added couplet)

'Ravi' had love problems throughout his life
He now says - "not a single woman I will pursue"