Faiz + all

 

Ghalib delights me

Faiz he does smite me

With words and verse

Few in this perverse universe

Can so speak to my heart

 

Dear heart

Much as I practice

Much as I rehearse

I cannot give a voice to

All my joys and the hurt

That in my life assailed me

When my friends had failed me

To a few good lines of verse

I was not averse

Their internal logic

Their rhymes did me nurse

My heart to some health

The cards that have been dealt

To me.

 

Yup, those guys were losers

Dealt with users, abusers

I too have friends

Am used to no end

Despite all the bluster

That I chance to muster

I can always rely

On my well-read eye

A good line of verse

When IÕm feeling worse

And the words said are terse

I surely do love, these

Poets, these losers

These beautiful boozers.