1/1: couplet

kuch iss tarah se

guzaari hai zindagi jaise

tamaam umr kisi

doosre ke ghar mein raha

in this way

life has passed

all the years

i lived in someone else’s home

Ahmed Faraz

(21)

guzri (2) spent, passed

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