poem

This is a poem written by Kaifi Azmi for Guru Dutt.


No one comes to this world to live forever
But no one leaves the world in quite your manner

For once, death, too, must have been disconcerted
For no one has embraced death in quite your manner

I fear lest the ocean may be blotted up
For no one sprinkles their ashes in quite your manner

You bore a grudge against the tavern-keeper
For no one slakes their thirst with poison, in quite your manner

I accept that you were saved by the light
But no one extinguishes the lamp in quite your manner

No one comes to this world to live forever
But no one leaves the world in quite your manner