**the Chronicler Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

Amr al Qais eulogized the tribe in warfare
The verse had timeless character not less than scripture
In desert when the feast was over and beloved had left
He laments sweetness of her person as she had slept
Having come from the victory of the war afair
Epic poems were he writing still in tears for love

Homer had done the same when he was writing
Wars of the gods and he praised
Firdausi in pure Persian wrote the expeditions
Mythical in nature for the men in battle

Vedas are Rama’s stories of success and the hymns
Eloquence when religion ensemble with the tribal
The sword got the sharpness of the holy
Constantine and Asoka when converted
Holy wars waged against all others
Crusades in history and modern clashes
Francis Fukuyama says clash of civilizations
The cold war legacy still alive in memory
Roaring jets and nuclear explosions

Did any one write than the stories of warfare
A men’s affair women say they say it right
The merriment was when blood spilled
Goblets would fill the music loud
They would count heads in front
When Ahmed Shah fought the third war
Nadir Shah in Delhi killed every man he saw
So goes Napoleon and Hitler and democracies
Hiroshima is a sad story Iraq and Afghanistan

Did any one speak for the common man
30/4/2009