1/1: pathar

jaanta hoon ek aise

shakhs ko mein bhi 'muneer'

gham se pathar ho gaya

lekin kabhi roya nahin

i too know of

one such person, ‘muneer’

whom sorrow has turned into a stone

but he never shed a tear

Muneer Niyazi

(4)

gham (14) sorrow, sadness

pathar (1) stone

roya (2) weep, cried

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