On The Wheel Chair Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

Like life the efforts
In a world
That has the limitation
In time and space
In the domain of the heart
Coming from the memory
Of a loved one

In sweet smile then changing
Into worries about future
The present on the wheel chair
In an abrupt smile when all hopes
Played in her eyes
For the God’s incarnation
Into the steps that see only darkness
Flowers in your hands I see not
A bunch of papers and like aliens
Away from my life if your hands
Dry but bring me Jesus
With one touch raise me up
All pains of my life

Ah my heart thou take away
Display it on the screen
When out of those papers
Papers and words
And on the screen
Like life when I just read
My wish was but to say
And talk for hours
The emotions that flow like rivers
Like tears that never stop
In my restless sleep

I lived in you
A few lines or just two lines
A prayer to the greater God
In faces made of stones
When my voice was but silence
For a presentation with an organogram
Lies and papers and tables and data
As the time went by
Like prayer did I recite
In ritual but my heart did speak
Like “daily news” a soul reminded
Alas but I wish I could
Just come out of the jugglery of words
To say a few words on what I felt

A child but born dear to God
Tongue I did not place in your head
A happy smile you have on your face
Known have you the ways of forgiving
But to myself
“I wish I had said that”
(After a presentation on education for special children)
21/11/2008