Naseer Ahmed Nasir Poems

The charioteer has gone to sleep
Ovecome by fatigue of wearisome ways
Unaware of where he is
All that's evident
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When the stony silence
Becomes a shadow
Of internal monologues
And loneliness peeps out
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Life is an empty abode
Built on the verge of
An invisible road
Leading to perpetual death
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Look O, traveller
Before dying
Put your dreams
In the care
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Let me sleep
Centuries old deep
And long sleep
Devoid of any dream.
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Night hidden behind that hillock
Hasn't peeped out so far
The ocean of darkness
Hasn't become turbulent till now
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When it rains

Roads, trees, houses, birds
Fences, lawns, porches, terraces
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Fast flowing road
Is the straits of the town.

A flood of comely faces
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Hither night falls, but
brings no dreams
sunshine advances, but
kindles no one
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Adieu, our guest birds, adieu!
Adieu, till the next year!
Next year when you'll bring the scriptures of your flight
We would be waiting for you on the lake shore
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