Friday, November 19, 2021

Childhood trauma - Shakeeb Jalali

Urdu poet Shakeeb Jalali committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a furious train at age 32 - about 22 years after he witnessed his father throwing his mother to an incoming train!

His own couplet was

فصیل جسم پہ تازہ لہو کے چھینٹے ہیں
 حدود وقت سے آگے نکل گیا ہے کوئی

Life is a bitch!

2 comments:

bsc said...

Terrible story
To witness such an act of barbarism against your mother at such tender age is not ordinary trauma even if he had lived 132 tears effect would have been the same

mystic-soul said...

Agree!