🎵 Ajeeb Dastaan by Lata Mangeshkar

She was just a lover. No other identity.

Love has no language, love holds no grudges, love is simply love. A devotion, a prayer, a beauty to be cherished. It never dies. And she that she sits watching her lover entering into a happy relationship with someone else, she can't help but wish the best for him.

अजीब दास्ताँ है ये, कहाँ शुरू, कहाँ ख़तम

ये मंज़िलें हैं कौन सी, ना वो समझ सके, ना हम

Love never has a place for revenge or bad thoughts. It's stranger, isn't it? The paths of lovers are different, and sadly nobody understands.

ये रोशनी के साथ क्यूँ धुआँ उठा चिराग़ से?

She takes a deep breathe to control her outburst. Somewhere deep she knew she wanted to cry her heart out but her mature self won't let her cry, not at least in front of so many people.

ये रोशनी के साथ क्यूँ ,धुआँ उठा चिराग़ से?

ये ख़्वाब देखती हूँ मैं

कि जग पड़ी हूँ ख़्वाब से

She still wants to believe this is somewhere a dream but the stark reality is, it's the truth, it's her reality she has to accept it. Like when we light a candle brightness comes with smoke. Her life is like the smoke, causing her confusion and away from the light but the heart knows. The light isn't here. She's left with only the smoke.

The light wasn't hers .

The person wasn't hers

अजीब दास्ताँ है ये, कहाँ शुरू, कहाँ ख़तम

ये मंज़िलें हैं कौन सी, ना वो समझ सके, ना हम

She still doesn't understand how strange the world works, what more has it in store for her. Is this suffering not enough?

मुबारकें तुम्हें कि तुम किसी के नूर हो गए....

With a broken heart she pours all her love for him, even if he belongs not to her some other person.

मुबारकें तुम्हें कि तुम किसी के नूर हो गए

किसी के इतने पास हो कि सब से दूर हो गए

She wants to brood in jealousy but she can't. The girl he's chosen is too good. But moving close to her, he's separated from other people and especially far away from her.

The person who could notice just her expression and figure about something was wrong is the same person who's now blind to her broken heart, swollen eyes and wobbly voice.

अजीब दास्ताँ है ये, कहाँ शुरू, कहाँ ख़तम

ये मंज़िलें हैं कौन सी, ना वो समझ सके, ना हम

What a strange journey it is. They didn't even realise when and how did it started but now it's slowly ended

किसी का प्यार लेके तुम नया जहाँ बसाओगे...

He will create a new fresh life. A life with his lover

A life without her

A life with love, which is not hers

किसी का प्यार लेके तुम नया जहाँ बसाओगे

ये शाम जब भी आएगी, तुम हमको याद आओगे

He will create a family, a new world, a new universe for himself while she will dwell in his thoughts every evening when she will see the moon. Because the moon just like him, was beautiful and far away from her.

She could only admire the far away things, the things she can't see from close.

He was her moon, shining every night in her dreams, in her thoughts, in her heart. Wanting to stay, but like sun takes over the moon, her duties, self respect and responsibilities make her forget about him during the daytime but she weeps herself to night drown in memories of him, her and then.

A love story

Which nobody understood but only her heart

A story which happened but never found its happy ending

A story where she loved him with everything she had and he showed her, her right place

Out of his story

Because there was never a ‘them’

It was only her, her dreams, and her delusional thoughts

A strange story indeed

अजीब दास्ताँ

मंजूर है हमें उनका नज़रअंदाज़ भी करना,

बस वो दिखते रहें शहर में हम जिंदा रहेंगे…!!

-unknown