Wrapped up in million stars this old sky,
As they stare from little windows of existence
From the wooden bridge, in the mountains
As the mist rises in its colors of remembrance,
There lies the valley, where beauty is suicidal
There lies home, where protection is nature
All in there, fleeting glance or permanence
The old days of reflection, spent in between
As they whisper, ode to change and for help
In there, lies the answer to our quest for brutality
As the smoke arises from snows of purity
The blood that flows in human rivers
Amidst beautiful snow, amidst gravity
As the new born find its feet and face
There melts, the human misery now
As seeds of this disease, reaches them
No longer forbidden and remote,
In all these years of its formation
Flows there our blood in this valley
Of you and me, as we kill all in our names
The great sacrifice to our voices of conscience
Wrapped up in million stars, this sky
As they stare from little windows of existence
At you, at me, this unbearable pain
As the new born find its feet and face!
ASIM
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8 responses to “Swat”
Beautiful!
N.W.F.P. the region of
Fair, blonde,blue and green eyed people………
We are beautiful,
DONT RUIN US!
DONT RUIN US!
DONT RUIN US!
May Allah save Swat and the people of swat and may Allah guide the Haramee Army of Pakistan.
“Windows of existence”,”unbearable pain “and “new born finds its feet and face”
Extremely beautiful and as delicate as the Hope (angel )appearing from behind the clouds.
Thanks Hina, Hajibaba and Shah for your comments.
I as a poet will highlight all what I can do…These things have to stop as we are ruining our own people at our own cost!
Pakistani Refugees
Is it not the time to ponder as Martin Neimoller, a German poet, did during Hitler’s fascist regime?
“First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.”
Why don’t they say more pertinently?
First they came for Ahmadies
and I did not speak out because I was not an Ahmadi
Then they came for the Shias
and I did not speak out because I was not a Shia.
Then they came for Swat
and I did not speak out because I was not a Swati.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.”
( With due apology for Martin Neimoller).
I wonder why the Shariat is not enforced in the first place on F.Lullah to charge him with 'Fassaad-fil-Arz' (creating havoc on the earth)?