– Zulfikar Inamdar
“Sabse gehra dard bewafai nahi hota…
Balki woh ehsaas hota hai
Jab tum kisi ko apni poori duniya bana lo…
Aur uski duniya mein
Tum sirf ek naam bankar reh jao…”
“I was ready to make you my only one…
While in your heart,
I was merely one among many…”
The cruelest part of love
Is not being forgotten…
It is discovering
You were ready to make someone your forever,
While they only made you
One among many…”
Teri Nazar Me:
Arz kiya hai ke…
Accha… teri nazar mein bohot alag hu mai,
Yaani… teri nazar mein koi aur bhi hai…
Bas itni si baat thi…
Magar usne mere andar
Na jaane kitne dard jaga diye…
Agar main sach mein akela hota
Teri duniya mein,
Toh tu mujhe “alag” nahi kehti…
Bas apna kehti…
Magar tune mujhe
Ek bheed mein laakar khada kar diya…
Jahan shayad aur bhi log the
Jo tujhe meri tarah chahte honge…
Us raat neend nahi aayi mujhe…
Teri baatein baarish ki tarah
Dil pe girti rahi…
Aur main bas ye sochta raha—
Kaun hai woh log
Jo teri muskurahat pe marte honge…?
Kaun hai woh
Jo tera “khayal rakhna” sunkar
Poora din muskura dete honge…?
Kaun hai woh
Jo teri online aane ki aahat se
Apni tanhaayi bhula dete honge…?
Aur agar waqai koi aur bhi hai…
Toh phir main kya tha…?
Ek aadat…?
Ek lamha…?
Ya bas ek aur dil
Jo tujhme poori duniya dekh baitha…
Mohabbat ajeeb cheez hai…
Ek shakhs poori zindagi de deta hai…
Aur doosra
Sirf waqt milne par yaad karta hai…
Maine tujhe sajdon mein manga tha…
Har dua mein tera naam chupaya tha…
Maine tujhe us shiddat se chaha
Jis tarah log sirf kahaniyon mein chahte hain…
Aur tune…
Tune mere hote hue bhi
Kisi aur ke liye jagah rakhi…
Bas wahi baat tod gayi mujhe…
Na dooriyan…
Na kismat…
Na judaayi…
Balki yeh ehsaas…
Ke main tujhe poora chahta tha…
Aur tu mujhe aadha…
Phir bhi ajeeb baat ye hai…
Main aaj bhi tujhse nafrat nahi kar sakta…
Tera naam aaj bhi
Dil ko halka sa sukoon de deta hai…
Teri yaadein aaj bhi
Raaton ko jagati hain…
Aur har mohabbat wali shayari
Aaj bhi tera chehra bana deti hai…
Shayad meri badnaseebi bhi yehi hai…
Ke maine tujhe toot kar chaha…
Aur ab toot kar bhi
Tujhe bhula nahi pa raha…
Ab bas khamosh rehta hu…
Apne dard ko muskura kar chhupa leta hu…
Magar agar kabhi
Zindagi tujhe meri tarah tanha kar de…
Toh shayad tab tujhe samajh aaye—
Kisi ek shakhs ki poori duniya hona
Kitni badi ne’mat hoti hai…
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“One Among Many” 🌙
(English Poetic Version)
A request is…
You said I was different…
And somehow that hurt more than silence ever could…
Because if I were truly the only one
Living inside your heart,
You would never have compared me
To the rest of the world…
You would have simply said—
“You are mine…”
But instead,
You left me standing
Among invisible strangers
I never even knew existed…
That night,
Your words followed me everywhere…
In the stillness of my room,
In the sound of the rain,
Even inside my breathing…
And I kept wondering…
Who else has seen your smile
And mistaken it for heaven…?
Who else waits for your name
To light up their darkened screen…?
Who else holds your memories
Like fragile glass inside their chest…?
And if there are others too…
Then what was I…?
A moment…?
A beautiful distraction…?
Or simply another heart
Lost in the crowd of people
Who loved you too deeply…
You know what love does sometimes…?
It makes one person
Build a universe around someone,
While the other
Only visits when they feel lonely…
I gave you places inside me
That even time had never touched…
I loved you
With the kind of sincerity
People only write about in poetry…
And still…
You kept a door open
For someone else…
That is what broke me…
Not distance…
Not fate…
Not even goodbye…
But the unbearable realization
That while I was loving you completely…
You were still leaving space
For another soul beside me…
And strangely enough,
I still cannot hate you…
Because hearts like mine
Do not stop loving easily…
Even after being shattered,
They continue beating
For the same person
Who destroyed them…
So now I stay quiet…
Carrying your memory
Like a wound wrapped in roses…
Beautiful to look at…
Painful to hold…
And if someday
Life teaches you the loneliness
You unknowingly gave me…
Perhaps then
You will finally understand
What it meant
To be loved by someone
Who saw no one else but you…
Sher O Shayeri 