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❝There must have been some compulsions,
no one becomes unfaithful just like that.❞
no one becomes unfaithful just like that.❞
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1931–2002📍 Amroha, India
Jaun Elia
جون ایلیا
NihilistRomantic Poetry
61Shayaris
12Categories
806.0kTotal Likes
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📖 About the Poet
Jaun Elia was an Urdu poet, philosopher, biographer and scholar from Amroha, India, who later settled in Karachi, Pakistan. Known for his eccentric lifestyle and nihilistic worldview, his poetry is marked by existential angst, loss, and a dark romanticism.
📚 Famous Works
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✨ Famous Couplet
"मैं भी बहुत अरसे से तन्हा हूँ"— Jaun Elia
✍️ Shayaris by Jaun Elia(61)
❝Now, in despair, we say we shall die,
but if death brings no peace either, where shall we go?❞
but if death brings no peace either, where shall we go?❞
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🔗❝Since evening there's a dampness in my eyes,
today, once again, I feel your absence.❞
today, once again, I feel your absence.❞
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🔗❝We too are a river, we know our own art,
whichever way we flow, a path shall form.❞
whichever way we flow, a path shall form.❞
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🔗❝My friends did not even care to remember me
Jaun, and yet I was ever the truest friend of friends❞
Jaun, and yet I was ever the truest friend of friends❞
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🔗❝The pain is so deep that tears no longer come,
the wounds so old that even pain has gone numb.
I have learned to live in silence,
what use is making noise when no one listens.❞
the wounds so old that even pain has gone numb.
I have learned to live in silence,
what use is making noise when no one listens.❞
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🔗❝I wish to return to those lanes of childhood,
where every sorrow had a cure with mother near.
Today the sorrows are the same but mother is gone,
that is why every path feels nameless and unclear.❞
where every sorrow had a cure with mother near.
Today the sorrows are the same but mother is gone,
that is why every path feels nameless and unclear.❞
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🔗❝Someone knocked at the door of my heart,
I opened it — and memories stood there.
Those memories I had tried to forget,
those memories that simply refused to disappear.❞
I opened it — and memories stood there.
Those memories I had tried to forget,
those memories that simply refused to disappear.❞
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🔗❝Life is just the story of one single moment —
what has passed is only a trace left in memory.❞
what has passed is only a trace left in memory.❞
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🔗🎭Ghazal⭐ Featured
❝I too am strange — I remember those who left,
I forget those who stayed.❞
I forget those who stayed.❞
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🔗❝This too is madness — remember it well,
Not you — and no one else comes to mind.
That I should remember someone else —
My memory holds no such intention.❞
Not you — and no one else comes to mind.
That I should remember someone else —
My memory holds no such intention.❞
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🔗💔Dard⭐ Featured
❝I have broken myself so much
that I no longer wish to mend,
The pain has grown so old
that medicine is no longer needed.❞
that I no longer wish to mend,
The pain has grown so old
that medicine is no longer needed.❞
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🔗❝You left and I remained behind —
became a character in this unfinished story.
Your departure was my destruction —
but your memory became my whole world and glory.❞
became a character in this unfinished story.
Your departure was my destruction —
but your memory became my whole world and glory.❞
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🔗❝I am certain you are happy being apart from me —
without me your life will be easier.
Perhaps I was a burden for you —
now you are free, this will be a favour.❞
without me your life will be easier.
Perhaps I was a burden for you —
now you are free, this will be a favour.❞
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🔗❝I too am strange — I befriend my own pain,
I wish to keep meeting the one who breaks me.
I sit alone at night, waking my memories —
This is my passion: to keep making myself weep.❞
I wish to keep meeting the one who breaks me.
I sit alone at night, waking my memories —
This is my passion: to keep making myself weep.❞
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🔗❝The silence that came after you left —
that silence says so many things.
Even in your absence from this place,
your memory is everywhere and clings.❞
that silence says so many things.
Even in your absence from this place,
your memory is everywhere and clings.❞
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🔗❝You have left — that is the truth —
but your memories are still here.
Your fragrance still lingers in this room —
you are not here, but it feels like you are.❞
but your memories are still here.
Your fragrance still lingers in this room —
you are not here, but it feels like you are.❞
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🔗❝I am very tired and the road is very long —
stay with me just a moment or two.
This fatigue, this sadness, this loneliness —
share it with me, hand in hand.❞
stay with me just a moment or two.
This fatigue, this sadness, this loneliness —
share it with me, hand in hand.❞
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🔗💔Dard⭐ Featured
❝I have been lonely for so very long,
You too have been lonely for just as long.
Still we two never seem to meet and belong —
What kind of distance is this, what kind of world gone wrong?❞
You too have been lonely for just as long.
Still we two never seem to meet and belong —
What kind of distance is this, what kind of world gone wrong?❞
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🔗😎Attitude⭐ Featured
❝I have come to know the world is vast and wide,
But for me it is a small and narrow tide.
They worry about me and what I might do,
While I have no worry about them it's true.❞
But for me it is a small and narrow tide.
They worry about me and what I might do,
While I have no worry about them it's true.❞
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🔗❝Breaking a heart is also an art —
but mending one is a miracle.
Those who give pain are common in this world —
those who remove pain are without equal.❞
but mending one is a miracle.
Those who give pain are common in this world —
those who remove pain are without equal.❞
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🔗❝You are not here but your fragrance is —
in every breath is your warmth.
I am parted from you but not alone —
the company of your memory is always with me.❞
in every breath is your warmth.
I am parted from you but not alone —
the company of your memory is always with me.❞
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🔗🌟Zindagi⭐ Featured
❝How lethal is the fragrance of your memory's trace,
Every time it arrives, it disturbs and leaves no grace.
It lets me neither come close nor go away free —
Your memory lives only in this in-between for me.❞
Every time it arrives, it disturbs and leaves no grace.
It lets me neither come close nor go away free —
Your memory lives only in this in-between for me.❞
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🔗❝When you came it was as if spring arrived —
every corner of the heart bloomed.
When you left it was as if the whole world left —
nothing remained.❞
every corner of the heart bloomed.
When you left it was as if the whole world left —
nothing remained.❞
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🔗❝I too am very fortunate that what I wanted I did not get —
had I gotten it, perhaps I would not have found this heart.❞
had I gotten it, perhaps I would not have found this heart.❞
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🔗❝What I lost, what I gained —
I have no account of this.
Only this I learned — that life
is never quite complete.❞
I have no account of this.
Only this I learned — that life
is never quite complete.❞
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🔗❝I am strange and you are strange as well,
I am not faithless and you are unlucky.
I kept searching for you but you never came,
you were very close — yet distance was our destiny.❞
I am not faithless and you are unlucky.
I kept searching for you but you never came,
you were very close — yet distance was our destiny.❞
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🔗❝The world was listening with great keenness and care,
I myself fell asleep while telling my tale there.❞
I myself fell asleep while telling my tale there.❞
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🔗💔Dard⭐ Featured
❝I had no idea I would be this lonely indeed,
A stranger among people, isolated in my need.
Everywhere around me smiling faces appear,
But inside every heart is a desert bare and drear.❞
A stranger among people, isolated in my need.
Everywhere around me smiling faces appear,
But inside every heart is a desert bare and drear.❞
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🔗❝You tell me — what should I do with this heart?
Weeping with you, and weeping after you.❞
Weeping with you, and weeping after you.❞
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🔗❝All philosophies are false, all doctrines are false —
Only one truth remains: that we are alive.
Do not try to understand life —
just live it — that is the greatest truth.❞
Only one truth remains: that we are alive.
Do not try to understand life —
just live it — that is the greatest truth.❞
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🔗❝I lived, and lived with great heartlessness —
but when I died, everyone acknowledged me.❞
but when I died, everyone acknowledged me.❞
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🔗❝I thought I would forget you —
but memories take root in the heart.
Every word of yours, every moment — I remember,
these memories make their home inside me.❞
but memories take root in the heart.
Every word of yours, every moment — I remember,
these memories make their home inside me.❞
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🔗💕Romantic⭐ Featured
❝She speaks in such a beautiful way,
Making my heartbeat quicken and sway.
With every smile that graces her face,
My heart builds a new world in its place.❞
Making my heartbeat quicken and sway.
With every smile that graces her face,
My heart builds a new world in its place.❞
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🔗❝I learned this from life —
every bond breaks one day.
But bonds formed from the heart —
even when broken, remain connected.❞
every bond breaks one day.
But bonds formed from the heart —
even when broken, remain connected.❞
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🔗❝This was not my madness — it was my tradition,
Every time I loved — I lost.❞
Every time I loved — I lost.❞
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❝I too am strange, and she is strange as well,
Our meeting too was something strange to tell.❞
Our meeting too was something strange to tell.❞
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🔗❝I have been extinguished, but I will remain bright,
I am the star of some dark and forgotten night.
The world cannot understand the pain that I bear —
I am a man who belongs to some other time and air.❞
I am the star of some dark and forgotten night.
The world cannot understand the pain that I bear —
I am a man who belongs to some other time and air.❞
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🔗❝Even in solitude you are not here,
even in the crowd I am alone.
In this fair we call life,
I am just a nameless face, unknown.❞
even in the crowd I am alone.
In this fair we call life,
I am just a nameless face, unknown.❞
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🔗❝Is this my madness or the effect of love I bear,
In everything around me I see your image there.
In every voice I hear your voice calling out to me,
In every face I look upon your face I see.❞
In everything around me I see your image there.
In every voice I hear your voice calling out to me,
In every face I look upon your face I see.❞
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🔗❝I want to cry but tears refuse to fall,
I want to laugh but laughter will not come.
I am living in a kind of hollow silence,
where even life itself has gone numb.❞
I want to laugh but laughter will not come.
I am living in a kind of hollow silence,
where even life itself has gone numb.❞
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🔗❝When you arrived it felt as if life itself had come,
When you left I understood what had become undone.
There was no bond, there was no promise made,
Yet the pain of breaking cut so deep, it never stayed.❞
When you left I understood what had become undone.
There was no bond, there was no promise made,
Yet the pain of breaking cut so deep, it never stayed.❞
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🔗❝Missing you has become a habit now,
At night and through the day, I don't know how.
Without you even breathing feels like less,
Life without you feels like emptiness.❞
At night and through the day, I don't know how.
Without you even breathing feels like less,
Life without you feels like emptiness.❞
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🔗😞Judai⭐ Featured
❝You left and there was pain — but life did not stop.
Wounds healed slowly; the heart's journey did not halt.❞
Wounds healed slowly; the heart's journey did not halt.❞
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🔗💔Dard⭐ Featured
❝I belong to no one, no one belongs to me,
This world is not mine, I am not the world's.❞
This world is not mine, I am not the world's.❞
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🔗😞Judai⭐ Featured
❝Your leaving was expected, your going known,
But losing myself was not what I'd shown.
Since the day that you walked away from me,
I've grown distant from myself, you see.❞
But losing myself was not what I'd shown.
Since the day that you walked away from me,
I've grown distant from myself, you see.❞
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🔗😞Judai⭐ Featured
❝What's gone is gone — don't call it back.
Don't torture yourself crying for what isn't there. Choose a new path.❞
Don't torture yourself crying for what isn't there. Choose a new path.❞
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🔗❝She is not near me, yet she is always with me,
This is the very reason for my ruin, you see.❞
This is the very reason for my ruin, you see.❞
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🔗❝I am the person who hides his sorrow behind a smile.
People think I'm happy, but my heart knows the truth.❞
People think I'm happy, but my heart knows the truth.❞
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🔗❝I am not as I appear to be,
The way I truly am, none can see.❞
The way I truly am, none can see.❞
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🔗❝I asked her to wait a while,
She glanced back, then walked away with a smile.❞
She glanced back, then walked away with a smile.❞
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🔗❝Today again there's a strange pull in the heart,
Perhaps a thought of you has come.❞
Perhaps a thought of you has come.❞
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🔗❝I am so very tired, O life,
You must be tired of me in this strife.❞
You must be tired of me in this strife.❞
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🔗❝You left; the world will fill, the heart's pain will also lessen.
But the memories of you that live in the heart — those will never go.❞
But the memories of you that live in the heart — those will never go.❞
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🔗❝Like a city that has been ruined, so am I,
Estranged from myself, unaware of myself.❞
Estranged from myself, unaware of myself.❞
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🔗❝Meeting you, parting from you — two ends of life.
In both is you, in both is I — these are love's circles.❞
In both is you, in both is I — these are love's circles.❞
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🔗❝There was so much to say to you, so much to hear from you.
But life gave no time — and thus time kept passing by.❞
But life gave no time — and thus time kept passing by.❞
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🔗❝I know the truth about paradise, nevertheless,
This thought is good, O Ghalib, to keep the heart content.❞
This thought is good, O Ghalib, to keep the heart content.❞
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🔗❝No one is responsible for my ruin,
I myself set fire to my own home.❞
I myself set fire to my own home.❞
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🔗❝It was not my fate to be united with my beloved,
Had I lived on, this waiting would have continued still.❞
Had I lived on, this waiting would have continued still.❞
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🔗❝A strange life has passed in a strange city,
Waiting — for God knows whom — all this while.❞
Waiting — for God knows whom — all this while.❞
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