Chand Bikhre Khayalaat V - Poetry Hindustani - चंद / چند
Channel: owais sarvasukhsevaka
Date: 04/10/2012

These are a few short pieces of poetry - Qata'at - in Hindustani, written two decades ago.  Unpublished so far, these are first being published here, and only in video format.

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Regarding 'Chand Bikhre Khayalaat V', first piece...  the poet is looking for a silver lining for himself and for other lonely, tortured souls in the World...   in fact, what he implies is that every human being is ultimately, utterly lonely...   only you yourself can live internal to your self...  no one else can or does...  all others are just peripheral to your own existence...   so being alone is an undeniable and timeless reality for EVERYONE...  though feeling lonesome is a choice one makes...    in that, he picks up the metaphor of the bright moon as the only solace, the only connect that the poet has, in the dead of the night...  when everyone is asleep...  and the poet cannot...   lying on his cot under the sky, in a deserted, companionless land, he can only connect with the moon, making its solitary way across the sky...  so, he says, "The moon is (also) alone and lonesome, and is getting ready to hide" thus even this companionship to the poet is soon going to be denied).  However, after the descriptive first line, the poet goes prescriptive, and tries to turn the situation positive by enhancing the importance of valuing that silver lining, in the second line, he says, "do not be sad, if that is all you have, at least you have that...  even that ephemeral and distant connect IS a connect".  You are not alone and quit feeling sorry for yourself- pick yourself up from the quicksand of self-inflicted misery, and go play the hand that you've got!