Naveed Akram Poems

My brother is on my flank,
He turns to me like a disciple;
I saw his soul with my soul,
And I understand him more everyday.
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Magic, so obvious to the magician’s eye,
Is like perhaps angels appearing,
And winds blowing from nowhere
To be kept by the magician in sealed bottles.
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In the very path I trod, words were sung,
Learning them was my business, around the trees.
But I kept to the path of life, not of destruction,
For peace was another avenue, one I took.
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Calculating and beginning comes to a man,
Knowing what stops him, believing in strength.
A substance is starting to vaporize due to heat,
Man’s heat makes sweat and anger on speech.
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We collect light from the sun
Because we inhabit the world
And receive the wrath of heat.
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Music of the heart sounds in the orchestra
For others to judge according to taste;
The pumping of blood made you nearly ask
For the music to stop and make farewell.
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One fairy arrived at the scene with flowers,
Two children made friends with the fairy;
On this dark day a crime had been committed,
Brotherly people should not have false allies.
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I am magic, I am a singer of great grade,
One borrows from time the immense music
That is played all-through and connects it
With the life of eternal happiness.
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Mourning and lamentations cause us to shudder,
The crying is awake, a large man shakes our understanding.

The weather is hazardous tonight, the night shall make us blind,
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When death came to a woman who leapt from a bridge,
Her husband leapt into grief, and was surprised by her act;
“Help me sleep! ” he cried, “Help me overcome this grief! ”
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