How Can You Write Down the Truth!
Poem by Zulfiqar Behan
If you keep on loving your being;
How can you write down the truth!
If you keep on boasting up;
How can you write down the truth!
There, where thinking be casted out,
And beauty be kept in the penal complex;
On the soil of nervousness,
How can you find out the pathway!
There, where are traps at every bit;
Envy is its brother and jealousy its father;
So cold its laughters and so hot its tears,
Tell me, how you can witness, then!
There are dribbles in the nib of your pen;
Nothing to you? if someone dies in cold!
You would pierce gluttony in the coffer of creation;
Then, how would you utter rightly!
Kids, beauty, fragrance and love;
What is more in the world than those;
If you discard all above;
How would live out in the world suppose!
Peoples glance at you earnestly;
Bring the memorandum of the truth early!
If you didn’t wake up right now;
Where in the history would you hide and how!
If you keep on loving your being;
How can you write down the truth!
If you keep on boasting up;
How can you write down the truth!
Translated from Sindhi Into English by Mubarak Ali Lashari
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