Hooked on her echo,
the poets return, paying
tributes to her legend.
And I,
who’ve left three decades behind,
three continents, three seas,
a desperado in search
of catastrophe,
now measure her legend by my sorrow.
Begum Akhtar | Agha Shahid Ali
Hooked on her echo,
the poets return, paying
tributes to her legend.
And I,
who’ve left three decades behind,
three continents, three seas,
a desperado in search
of catastrophe,
now measure her legend by my sorrow.
Juvenilia 