This is a ghazal by the Pakistani poet Muzaffar Warsi (1933 – 2011) which was originally composed by Jagjit Singh and recorded with his wife, Chitra Singh in the late 1980s. The poem speaks about expressing one’s wishes in silence and the poet so desires to be so alone with the beloved that even the sound of one’s own presence cannot be heard. In the final couplet, the desire to be so at one with the beloved is contrasted with a sardonic reference to those who, even when drowning, have a need to hold on to something or someone.
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