Majrooh Sultanpuri translations

Majrooh Sultanpuri translations of Urdu poems into English

I’m like a commodity being priced in the market-place:
every eye ogles me like a buyer’s.
―Majrooh Sultanpuri, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

If you insist, I’ll continue playing my songs,
forever piping the flute of my heart.
―Majrooh Sultanpuri, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

The moon has risen once again, yet you remain absent.
My heart is a blazing pyre; wherefore?
―Majrooh Sultanpuri, loose translation by Michael R. Burch