1/1: dahr

jise ishrat-kada-e-dahr

samajhta tha main

aakhir-e-kaar vo

ek khwaab-e-pareshaan nikla

that which i thought was

the pleasure house of the world

at the end, turned out to be

a troubled dream

Agha Mohammed Khan Taraqqi ‘Taqi’

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