These are some beautiful lines Meena Kumari, the actress and the poetess. Read these and you can feel the sadness in the lines. Surprisingly, almost all the work by Meena Kumari “Naaz” falls under the category of “sad shayri”. Rarely you would come across anything written by her that you can think was written in a happy mood.
Chand tanha hai, aasmaan tanha,
Dil mila hai kahan kahan tanha.
Bujh gayi aas, chhup gaya taara,
Thar-tharata raha dhuan tanha.
Zindagi kya isi ko kehte hain,
Jism tanha hai, jaan tanha.
Hamsafar agar koi agar mile bhi kahin,
Dono chalte rahe tanha tanha.
Jalti bujhti si roshni ke pare,
Simta simta sa ek makaan tanha.
Raah dekha karega sadiyon tak,
Chhod jaayenge ye jahan tanha.
The word tanha isn’t just written here, you can actually feel the loneliness. Makes you wonder how alone the poetess must be feeling, how broken-hearted she must had been when she wrote these lines. Beautiful and definitely worth sharing.
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