STAIN OF LOVE: a ghazal

STAIN OF LOVE: a ghazal


My love, please do not pain me.
I am dry, do not drain me.

I was pure but in your heart
You could never contain me.

You wandered away yourself.
Why should then you refrain me?

Now I want to go afar;
I wish none to restrain me.

I can be my own master;
Why should anyone rein me?

Let us be frank about it;
You cannot now regain me.

Love is a bad word, Khalish.
It will forever stain me.


• Written as 7 syllables per line. For knowing more about the ghazal style of poetry, please view "WHAT IS A GHAZAL AND HOW TO WRITE IT?" .

* Khalish is the pen name of the poet. It is an Urdu word meaning
ache or pain.

• Initially written as item 715838, replaced on 29 March 2005 by entry 337614 in the book MY GHAZALS IN ENGLISH, "MY GHAZALS IN ENGLISH" . Posted in the present form on 12 July 2010.



M C Gupta ‘Khalish’
7 July 2003