Waqt . . . What is Time by Javed Akhtar

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Thought provoking poetry by Javed Akhtar  . . . Waqt

English Translation 

What is time? 

What is this thing that goes on without pause? 

If it did not pass, 

Then where could it have been? 

It must have been somewhere. 

It has passed. 

So where is it now? 

It must be somewhere. 

Where did it come from? Where did it go? 

Where did the process start? Where will it end? 

What is time? 

These events

Incidents

Conflicts

Every grief

Every joy

Every torment

Every pleasure

Every smile

Every tear

Every song

Every scent, 

It may be the pain of a wound

Or the magic of a tender touch, 

Or lonely voice or cries around; 

Success and failures assailing the mind; 

The upheavals of care, the tumult of the heart. 

All feelings

All emotions

Are like leaves

Floating on the surface of the water. 

As they swim along

Now here, 

Now there, 

And now they disappear, 

Gone from site, but

There must be something

Flowing along. 

What is this river? 

What hills has it come from? 

To what sea is it going? 

What is time?