"It's startling how shadows can tell stories",
once you said to me nonchalantly.

Maybe that is why
I do not let the light in anymore.

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जिस बेनाम बचपन के लिए पूरी जवानी
पिताजी की वृहत परछाई को कोसा,
उस परछाई को अब देखने पर मालूम होता है
कि वो पिताजी की दी हुई छांव थी।

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Never knew that you'll
also fly like that butterfly
which we made with our shadows.

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The assurance that your shadow is walking with you.

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She is a flower that scents when
he becomes busy adoring the darkness.
He is the darkness that becomes a
paradise when she becomes busy
adoring the dew drops in clouds.

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Don't fall for my shiny parts
For when I stand under the sun
A part of me is always a shadow

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फिक्र होने लगी है ज़ुबाँ की अपने,
अब लोग सुनते नहीं बस वाह वाह करते हैं।

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