Love In The Time Of Fire Poem by Sufi Noor Ali

The sparks of fire diffusing everywhere
Fresh flesh of human body is burning by the firearms
Thrown on them by the hell-hound anarchist-
They should enjoy the taste of inferno being burnt by earth fire
Who are not listed for the heaven;
It can be termed as the rehearsal of eternal punishment.

Fire chases away everyone
Nobody knows whoever is next to burn;
It's not the time to inquire the touch-stone of fire
Front page of the Dailies embellished with photographs
Of those horror blistered faces
And flashes of cameras focused on those charred faces
Like the moment when celebrity movie star
Gets down from her land cruiser;
Politicians receive these scenarios as power matters
Pity and sympathy deluges on the premises of burn-unit
It's great joy to half- scorched men that
Famous leaders of country meet with them,
To be burnt is the blessing- - -
For this, powerful leaders sharing sorrows
And their eyes filled in tears.

Beloved, in this fiery time, never keep open
The door for my safe return,
Never ignite the clay-lamp of well -being-
Oxidized wind may transform it into a fireplace
Stop loving me and pray for the burnt.
Terrible flame of fire frightened Prometheus,
He steals fire from heaven for
The welfare of mankind
And shocked to see, fire is used to burn mankind.
Perhaps, he would demand graver punishment
for his stealing of fire from Olympus.

Omnivorous fire growls everything
Sweetheart, I cannot assure you that
Tonight we will sleep together on same bed
I may miss of dreaming shining future
Looking at your glittering eyes-
The dreadful fire chases away school-going innocent girls.
Kissing couples sitting on the benches of park,
Running buses full of human species-
It may burn even azure of sky
And the wings of sparrow,
So don't expect my home-coming safe.