1/7: khat

naama-bar tu hi bata

tu ne to dekhe honge

kaise hote hain wo khat

jin ke jawaab aate hain

oh messenger, please tell me

for you must have seen

what kind of a letter

gets a reply from her

Theme:Love, Passion and Longing (88)

2/7: khat

andhera hai

kaise tera khat padhun

lifaafe mein

kuchh raushni bhej de

it is dark here…

how will i read your letter?

do send some light

with the envelope

Theme:Creativity, Philosophy & Enlightenment (30)

3/7: khat

kya kya fareb dil ko

diye izteraab mein

un ki taraf se aap likhe

khat javaab mein

so restless, in what all ways

have you deceived yourself

on her behalf you wrote

replies to yourself

Theme:Love, Passion and Longing (88)

4/7: khat

zindagi kam paDhe

pardesi ka khat hai 'ibrat'

ye kisi tarah paDha jaye

na samjha jaye

life is like a little-read letter

of a foreigner, 'ibrat'

however you read it,

you can't make sense of it

Theme:Life, Living & Dying (104)

5/7: khat

vo bhi shaayad ro paDe

veeraan kaaghaz dekh kar

main ne us ko aakhiri khat mein

likhaa kuch bhi naheen

maybe she will break down

seeing my blank letter

in this last message to her

i didn’t write anything

Theme:Loneliness, Solitude & Grief (92)

6/7: khat

kya jaane kya likhaa tha

use izteraab mein

qaasid ki laash aayi

khat ke jawaab mein

in my restlessness

i don’t know what i wrote to her

in reply came

the corpse of the messenger

Theme:Love, Passion and Longing (88)

7/7: khat

qaasid ke aate aate

khat ek aur likh rakhuun

main jaantaa huun

jo vo likhenge jawaab mein

while the messenger returns

i will keep another letter ready

for i know what

she would be writing in reply

Theme:Voice, Expression & Language (61)