Please Bring a Token Home from Each Journey

Please Bring a Token Home from Each Journey

Please bring a token home from each journey
Along with your worn-out feet, bring butterfly wings
 
I am writing the story of our companionship
If you can, please bring a noble word
 
I hope fidelity will not exhaust us
That we can renew this romance
 
That if in some enchanted place, you are captured
by a moonlit face, you will carve a likeness, bring it home
 
Your passion for travel takes you away from home
Please do not bring back regret like dust in your pockets
 
It is strange air that we all breathe
May your eyes fill when you come home
 

Original Poem by

Noshi Gillani

Translated by

Nukhbah Langah with Lavinia Greenlaw Language

Urdu

Country

Pakistan