bahar aayee

unlike other cities that take time off to celebrate spring, karachi is too caught up in its rat race to avail a couple of days when you feel a hint of perfume of new foliage and flowers blooming in their glory... i cross the road to get to work & a waft of a pleasent breeze sends me floating on air a little respite from the gloom and morning stress...why not sieze this day why not embrace this moment as long as it lasts

http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~sheikh/poetry/faiz/bahar_ayee.html

what could be a better tribute to spring than that given immortality by faiz, giving it the "ejaz", the magesty of his simple expression - a tribite to spring, the rejuvenation of life but also its pain