Nikhat Bano Poems

I think I resemble these people
A diminutive in comparison
By defying all laws of creation
Have got everything they have
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In the dust he was lying, unarmed, unescorted,
upon his head my gun was pointed;
I was eager to register my name among patriots,
his body throbbed seeing me in a fight mode.
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I've treasured a span of life,
for me, which is so dear,
once when I had nothing,
then I was an emperor;
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I'm eager to know about the life and likings of this abode,
all about their mundane affairs and fancy full scope.

Even the wind seems sedated when it passes through this place,
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Buried beneath tonnes of rubble
we were sealed in a sepulchre,
with two more souls lying parallel
once we all three were influential.
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Illuminated is the whole arena, phenomenal is the glamour;
Who's coming tonight? For whom is this fervour?

Stars are studded all along, all are waiting in this barren;
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Let us light up those erased lamps,
which humanity is crying to revamp;
Let us love, shimmer and blink together,
in every clinched fists and brutal grasp.
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It was an usual place of worship but quaintly strong,
in a quintessential town of my ancestral home;
A mosque not awfully grand but a modest one,
the same maker was revered in both the sanctum.
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On the sizzling sand of youth,
you played barefoot;
Unarmed and unmindful of the,
feary blows of time.
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I just saw a word 'Humanity'
written somewhere here,
O Yes! On a page of our mortal book;
Somewhere right here!
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