Haikus (The Moon)

The moon stared hiding itself, The night was sitting Nude in the balcony ******** Every phalanx was lighted, In her closed fists Was it the moon or the firefly? ******** The night all bared, And from behind the curtains Of, the coconut trees, the moon peeping. ******** The milky heat of the moon, The frozen sky melts Despair poured, drop-by-drop. ******** On the coastal rocks, Hanging its head, the moon Sits, before committing suicide. ******** The decay of the night, In the shades of the places of worship The moon too feels exhausted. (1985, Translated from Urdu into English by Dr. M.Q. Khan, India)