Mohammad Younus Poems

I went to take a stroll in the Garden of Love to-day -
My Love's singing birds came to sing for me...
...under the cool shade of chinār-tree,
And swarms of honey-bees flitted across the garden,
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I am a Kashmiri, I, too, am a human being,
Day and night I hear the shrieks of mothers,
Moaning and mourning over their slain children,
Shouldering the coffins of near and dear,
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Beloved, your music pops up...
...from my heart's deep,
How can my face conceal...
...my heavenly ecstasy,
...

Who am I?
Every hour I create my new identity,
Every hour a mysterious hand moves,
With a compass on my point,
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When I hear any one speaking about me
It surprises my ear, my heart, and my mind
How can he know me when I don't know myself
You can see my outer self,
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Speaking To My Self

So Silent! So still an ocean!
Listening to mystic lore
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Once upon a time, o my sons and daughters, listen!
You must always listen!
People would with wide open heart and eyes welcome
But, now, with ice-frozen eyes they look at us and fear our shadows
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Winter is coming; I can hear from the autumn breeze;
Leaves are changing colors to red and gold...
...and are falling off the trees;
People are shopping warm sweaters, blankets, and winter quilts...
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Listening to music that falls like rains,
Growing love, producing ecstasy,
I'm feeling peace in my soul and heart!
It lifts me up from the lowest of low!
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Where's the cure to one's heartaches, ...
...for one battered by sorrows?
Who's there to comfort him and to...
...shower love on him?
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