din kabhi pani hota raat kabhi kashti hoti
shamein mila thi donon ko jalke
shamein alag karti unko jalke

jee liya maine hissey baarishon ke
kha liya maine dhakke khwahishon ke

yahan bhi wahan bhi doosrey jahaan bhi
pyaar ki aankh mein haar kul jama bhi
har jagah ud chala bekhabar ye parinda dil ka

reshmi chaand pe tooti ke kaanch pe
tez si saas ki aakhri aanch pe
har jagah ud chala
bekhabar ye parinda dil ka

man ke jaisa khaali hota
aansu jaisa jaali hota
mitti jaisa apna hota
subah jaise sapna hota
din kabhi pani hota

Day, a flowing water, night, a fragile boat,
Evenings merged them, born of the same salt,
Evenings sundered them, by the water's fault.

I have lived the portions of the rains,
I have borne the blows of wanton strains.

Here and there, beyond the veil of worlds unseen,
Love's very eye, a losing, final sheen,
Everywhere it flies, this heedless heart, a bird.

On silk of moon, on shattered shards of glass,
A final breath, a fading, searing pass,
Everywhere it flies,
This heedless heart, a bird.

Empty like the mind's vast, hollow space,
Like tears, a web of sorrow's traced embrace,
Like earth, a kinship we can truly find,
Like dawn, a dream that fades and leaves behind,
Day, a flowing water, evermore.