We'll Go To Karachi, Some Day... Poem by Naseer Ahmed Nasir

We'll Go to Karachi, Some Day

We'll go to Karachi
some day
We'll yearn to see the sea
after throwing our eyes into it
The one who got out of home in the childhood
to see the shipyard
and to travel around the globe
to mint money
But, in the jungle of apartments and plazas
he got lost in some sand dune
lifting the gravel for construction

We'll go some day
to the shore
to throw into the sea
the waste of all the under construction houses of the city,
piling up in my heart!

Original poem in Urdu by Naseer Ahmed Nasir
English translation by Kamran Awan