in today's times, romance has become frivolous destroying the divine concept of true love men date women without the intention to marry them where is chivalry heading? where is the youth heading? where is the beauty-struck youth heading? traditional embroidered costumes are disappearing traditional earrings are disappearing traditional silk stoles and robes are disappearing
traditional veils and the veiled women are disappearing our traditional values are disappearing! oh what is to become of our world? only the god almighty knows what is to become of our world? my blessed soul belongs to you my almighty it belongs to the heavenly star it also belongs to holy men under the banyan tree water filled vessels once sat on your head
no one could bare the radiance of your ethereal beauty praises were showered upon you in every direction you traveled anklets embraced your feet with exaltation but now you seem to have forgotten your own true value your graceful elegance is dissipating forgetting your old folk tunes our partition cost us dearly river chenab often asks her sister river ravi how is my dear brother river sutlej
the road to peshawar is far and distantand hard to reach at the wagah border i look for those paths that once existed to lahore, but sadly don’t exist anymore today ‘hello’ and ‘thank you’ are more prevalent than ‘namaste’ and ‘shukriya’ we seem to be losing our own identity we take no pride in our own languages we feel no shame in disrespecting and condescending ourselves it is important to learn other languages, but without foregtting our own let’s not lose what we have, looking at what others have, because no good has ever come from it
drugs are ruining the youth of our country reducing their bodies to bones that sound like shiva’s drums of death bad politics is killing the ambition of our youth cheating has become the norm oh maan, there is no guarantee of what the future holds remember our wise ancestors said that holding grudges against your circumstances will never bring you any good. so be positive!