If You Know Poem by Naveed Akram

If you know nothing in your heart
This day madness enters the fray,
Inculcating an oath of work and despair,
Feeding a frenzy of fanaticism.

Wealth has been forsaken, poor blood
Enters the veins, with ruby arteries
Disappearing, like a message of disunity,
As fast as the solar rays of disintegration.

The rays of hope have visited someone else,
His heart renders perfect the family,
The family is the family of families,
It contains bricks of rigid structure, souls of right.

If you know nothing, this heart bleeds,
Knowledge is the ocean, wisdom is the land;
When you learn, a shivering spine becomes,
The philosophers turn their heads in humility.