COME NIGH ME—a ghazal

COME NIGH ME—a ghazal


Come my love, pray, come nigh me;
Please do not so much try me.

I hold you dear in my heart.
Why, my love, you decry me?

Why take offence? Why even
Ere meeting, wish goodbye, me.

Separation I can’t bear
No, my love, don’t make cry, me.

Life is full of loneliness;
For a moment, sit by me.

Your gaze does betray your doubt.
Why should you so much pry me?

I am never far from you.
Khalish, why so much spy me?


* Written in 7-7- format

* A ghazal consists of couplets in which the last 1-3 words of both lines of the first couplet and each second line of the subsequent couplets are repeated as refrain [called radeef], while the word immediately preceding the refrain is a rhyming one and is called monorhyme or kaafia.

* For a detailed note on ghazal and examples and links to my ghazals, please see: "WHAT IS A GHAZAL AND HOW TO WRITE IT?" 


M C Gupta
15 April, 2004