A Melancholic Nightingale : Dr. Perwaiz Shaharyar

A Melancholic Nightingale

Dr. Perwaiz Shaharyar

A melancholic nightingale in the summer days

Shines her furry quills of wings and the breast

She has become fed up with her repeated plays

She is craving to sit with her loving pair and rest

The memories of togetherness are aching

How sweetly she was swinging with her pair

Separation is really a rogue and heart-breaking

She thinks it is useless to live in a love affair

God has created the world to love each other

Turn this world a beautiful place with your deeds

So, I sing my sweet love songs to reach farther

Alas! My partner could understand my needs

The poet feels he is going through a deficit of love

The poet is as innocent as a nightingale or a dove 

(Dr. Perwaiz Shaharyar is an Editor and a trilingual (English, Hindi and Urdu) poet, short story writer and critic from India. He is Editor, NCERT, New Delhi, INDIA