❝How does one explain why they feel so alone,
The one who was theirs has now become unknown.❞
The one who was theirs has now become unknown.❞
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🔗कोई यह कैसे बताए कि वो तन्हा क्यों है, — Parveen Shakir | Dard Shayari
About Parveen Shakir
Parveen Shakir was a Pakistani Urdu poet, teacher, and civil servant. She was one of the most celebrated and beloved Urdu poets of the 20th century, known for writing about female emotions, love, and femininity with rare sensitivity and depth.
Born: Karachi, Pakistan · Era: 1952–1994 · Specialty: Love Poetry, Ghazal
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About Dard Shayari
Sad shayari captures what's hard to say out loud. Ghalib's restlessness, Faiz's longing, Jaun Elia's ache — this collection holds some of the finest verses on sorrow and loneliness. Reach for these when words feel heavy, when you want to sit with a feeling rather than fix it, or to let a friend know their pain is understood.
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❝I try so hard to forget you and move on,
Yet in every effort, memory of you is drawn.❞
Yet in every effort, memory of you is drawn.❞
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🔗❝Whether you come or not, spring has arrived,
Flowers have stretched and butterflies have thrived.
But again and again my eyes turn toward the lane,
From which my beloved used to come in refrain.❞
Flowers have stretched and butterflies have thrived.
But again and again my eyes turn toward the lane,
From which my beloved used to come in refrain.❞
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❝You drift like fragrance everywhere,
You touch me but never stay there.
I've met you but couldn't hold you near,
This is the sorrow that will not clear.❞
You touch me but never stay there.
I've met you but couldn't hold you near,
This is the sorrow that will not clear.❞
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🔗❝That they came to our home — it is God's wonder indeed,
Now I gaze sometimes at them, sometimes at my home in need.❞
Now I gaze sometimes at them, sometimes at my home in need.❞
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🔗❝I loved him like a cherished wish I held inside,
He forgot me like a dream that faded with the tide.
What can I say about life's old tradition this way —
Who was meant for me had himself changed on the day.❞
He forgot me like a dream that faded with the tide.
What can I say about life's old tradition this way —
Who was meant for me had himself changed on the day.❞
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❝The moon today asks my opinion, dear,
Who looks at it when you yourself are here?
With you present, what need is there for the moon above?
You are my night and my dawn — my only love.❞
Who looks at it when you yourself are here?
With you present, what need is there for the moon above?
You are my night and my dawn — my only love.❞
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❝Thousands of longings, each so fierce it could take my breath away,
many of my wishes did come true, yet still they weren't enough.❞
many of my wishes did come true, yet still they weren't enough.❞
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🔗❝They too had pain, yet they left
I too have pain, but where can I go❞
I too have pain, but where can I go❞
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🔗❝They wrote in a letter
forget me
but I read that same letter every day❞
forget me
but I read that same letter every day❞
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❝Do not ask of me that same first love, my love,
I had once believed that with you, life itself would shine.❞
I had once believed that with you, life itself would shine.❞
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🔗❝So what if there are tears in my eyes
The feelings of the heart do not come to the tongue❞
The feelings of the heart do not come to the tongue❞
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🔗❝Whenever I look at the empty sky
I see your face there❞
I see your face there❞
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🔗❝I keep hiding the pain deep in my heart
Smiling on the outside, I am dying within❞
Smiling on the outside, I am dying within❞
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🔗❝Whatever I burned in the loneliness of night
In the morning I found their image in the ashes❞
In the morning I found their image in the ashes❞
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