Oh, mourn not dear heart
For your words are profound
Wait for your time and hold, till
Cherries flowers fall on ground
Little they know about you
so they did about Copernicus quest
let them relate to be as you
One who flew over the cuckoos nest
It is the trial that each must go
He who unveils secrets
which the nature sow
When I am low and drowned
In crests of a mean society
I slip into my cocoon
I feel what they call vacuüm
I see what they know as dark
When a day tumult dies down
One by one and bit by bit
My words come to me
Each strengthens me
Each leaving me happy
More than a castle
More than bliss
And make me a poet.
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Out on a roof in a cold night
My eyes fixed on a single star
Such a big sky and yet
So alone in space, poor star
I questioned its loneliness
My voice echoed followed by silence
The same it asked
One more time but a greater silence
How alike we were
Like a mirror faces another mirror
it on sky; I on earth
Both answerless and in vacuum
The ghost of me
Degrading me
A bug to my strength
Hidden in cloaks of mystery
Smelling my victory
Louder he yells
Louder I laugh
This is me, squaring at him
Through the void of hope.
void of hope
COMPANY THAT ONE KEEPS……..
somebody asked the soil
post rain,the secret of its scent
it replied without turmoil
my worth of no cent
cluster of dust,i am
influx of rotten stuff
every feet is above my crust
rocks and stone, my ironical beauty
my secret of scent is clear
i have no scent of my own
its the flowers i bear
its the beauty i hold
my company is beauty, so am i
Note: I remixed the lines of ” Sheikh Saadhe” with a little addition from
my side and gave it a shape of a poem. Those lines were in the great persian
language.My favorite lines.
An unsafe sanctuary……….
Skeletons walking in the streets
Searching end to end for newly born
Laugh upon the dead bodies,soul fleet
Ah!no men alive to mourn
Skeletons swing cradle to grave
Wonder to mankind folly
No salvage, nothing to save
Men kill men, axes feet truly
Oh mankind! put your best
In search of lost dove
Heal wounds, help oppressed
Bury hatreds,carry love
Zahid Masood 