Never heard before couplets of Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Faiz Ahmad Faiz was among the most celebrated and popular poets of Urdu. He faced political repression for his revolutionary views. He is acknowledged as a torchbearer of progressivism and modernism in Urdu poetry. Here are five couplets of Faiz that you may not have heard of or read before. You may read them below:

Love-afflicted I lay, why don’t you bring me a cure

What a healer are you, heal me for I adjure

I’m a lazy one, I’m not a Farhad
Who else in this city of dead than I

One may, or may not get, the desired wine in hell
But one would get rid of the counselor at least

Life is but a poor man’s cloak where one
Keeps sewing it with patches of pain

He’s coming; he’ll come; he’s on his way
Awake did I stay all the night for my day