Poetry at Sangam
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Translated from original Urdu by Vinita Agrawal
Speak
your lips are free
your tongue your own
upright your body
your life your own.
Fierce is the blaze at the iron smiths
red hot its glowing iron
Ajar, agape the locks
Its ensnaring shackles
on the brink of clamping on you
so, speak!
These furtive moments are enough
to say something
before your tongue and body
are silenced forever
Speak, for the truth is alive
say whatever it is that you have to say.
← Faiz Ahmed Faiz
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