THE FRANTIC WORLD

Heinous Old Serpent 

spew out the world

we look at the map of  world

for a matter of that is not concern of mine

and I shall be asked,

why should I follow your fighting line

why should you drag us into war ?

Mortifying  it was and it is,

the nakedness of war, savagery of swords,

brutality of guns we experienced in the past,

the nightmare in our memory pushes us into panic

                The sanguinary of the bloody wars

                Tears of Bosnian widows,

                Corpses in Palestinian Soil,

                The Bloodbath in Algeria

                Blood spread soil of Kosovo,

                Blood-spattered mud in Kabul

Carcasses of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,

Dying kids in Iraq

All at last Earth says the chronicle end in dark

We look at the dying earth and says,

the wonderful calmness we like,

cement of confidence we like

Not marching against liberty

                But, are on foot behind liberty

We wish to avoid unlit sky

                We wish to avoid the earth to moan

We wish to avoid the sky shedding black tears

                We like the glittering sun and smiling moon

                We like the stars shining brightly in the sky

                We like the wind breathing slowly

We like gleeful earth and sky

                And we love hearts that makes earth happy           1/2

But, The heinous Old Serpent 

shoot out the world with weapons

                I shall be asked,

                looking at the map of world,

                Why should I follow your fighting line?

                Why should you drag me into war?

               

                                                -       AZAD