Impression Ii Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

A black fish with long tail
In forceful movement
Caught in a hook
Pervasive aroma all over the city

Torn into pieces
Salted and dried
To be sold
From an egg from deep ocean
A bifurcating tail
Very long ago
Some similar happenings

Two boys crossing road
Hiding in the bush
A sport starvation
Four other boys
From the same mother
Watching laughing

An ant running very fast
On the footpath
Where who knows

The old man on the gate
Tired of searching

Aroma of coffee
What a symbiotic relation
I will become
A tree with long shadows
(On the city of Karachi)
30/11/2008