*voices From Within Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

Darkness and deeply dug earth
The moon in full giving light
In the corners metallic garbage
Remeltable steel mixed with dust
In abhorrence for the word broken
In the shadows things deplete
Up those nooks reside humans
Mothers but what ghosts
They have to frighten children
Blackouts looming culture
Still for the tomorrow
Long legs and sweet smiles
On rusted shattered faces

Make things difficult
What is easy and impossible
That is difficult
Squeezing their way
One by one under watchful eyes
All the things but few
Scanning through the bones
Who has the right to the land
How can one sell earth
Just because by trickery
In betrayal of all values
Human but averted
The revolution by pushing back
A few hundred years more

Nothing prevents the doing
Anything that can bring
Those barriers down
Some holy spirits to perpetuate
For the inner freedom a heart vast
The voices from within
Those whispers shall one day
Fall as lightening thunders
How many more bloodsheds
How many more sacrifices
11/3/2009