Meshing Iii Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

‘Meshing gives warmth, softness and transparency to hard cold opaque steel.'
Charu Gandhi

That knowing is suffice, the revolution is won,
That the craftiness and shamelessness known
That every corner of your mind, opaque
That the winds break closed doors, windows open
That your magnificent head on pillow thinks
That your feet take you to ‘Azadi Square'
That new names invent, that the left over rot
That the contagion is spread, and the mighty fall
That the steel is meshed and brittle concrete,
That the shadow holds the walls, and hands free,
That an unknown quote embellishes a verse
That when a century is past, waiting, and
That a rose was afloat, amidst storms,
That the freedom horse is let loose, unbridled
That songs are sung, and dances on mud floors
That a history is written, pages torn
That out of nothing, something is made,
That love is made in times of war, and the poor,
That the voices are raised, and truths are spoken.

Sadiqullah Khan
Islamabad
August 21,2014.