原始歌词 (English)
The drawing itself protests
The drawing itself protests—against whose mischievously composed lines?
Every figure in the picturewears a plaintiff’s paper robe.
Digging down through toughlayers of loneliness—don’t even ask.
To get from night to dawn isto carve a channel through stone.
The wild rush of ardor—youought to see it.
The sword’s breath is drawnout of its breast.
No matter how awarenessspreads its net,
My realm of words hides theimagined bird.
Ghalib, even in bondage I’m soaflame with restlessness,
Every link of my chain is afire-singed hair.