Bahadur Shah Zafar ghazal

 My heart does not feel at home in this desolate land


Whose creation is this world of the rootless


Tell these desires to settle somewhere else


Where is so much space in this tainted heart


Do not remove the thorns from the garden, O gardener


These too have grown up with the flowers in the spring


The nightingale has no complaint with the gardener or the hunter


It was written in his fate that he would be imprisoned in the season of spring


How unlucky is Zafar for burial


He could not even get two yards of land in the well of his beloved


Bahadur Shah Zafar


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