THE COSMO MAGAZINENovember 13, 2026
ART & LITERATURE · TRANSLATION

Pain Written on Blank Pages

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Author/Poet: Ulfat Tabbsum
Translator: Muhammad Azram
Source: Urdu Literature

There were numerous letters
Which were sent empty and unscripted.
There were many unexplainable pains
Which he couldn’t write,
And I couldn’t read.

Some pains can’t be explained in words.
They lie beyond the scope of transcripts.
To explain those pains,
We leave a few pages blank
To express and convey that pain.

It is just like our heart
That becomes empty after falling in love,
Or
We feel empty deep within us
After giving birth to a poem.
We can fill that empty space
With light and hope.

But
Maybe I was considered like that very pain
Which doesn’t fall within the limited scope of words;
Hence, It could neither be read
Nor could It be understood.

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Originally Written in Urdu by Ulfat Tabbsum

Translated into English Language By Muhammad Azram

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