None Can Own The Skies! Poem by Shahzia Batool
None Can Own The Skies!
None can own the skies
'tis the open field
for falcons and for flies
hold your thread but fast
‘tis not that much fragile
Strength is not in thread
In our fingers' hold
hope can always last
to fight with evil vile
just think it in your mind
the ways we always find
kites fly but on the blows
and stars do never laugh
we open these our eyes
and never keep them close
the kite with its thread
one can own and hold
the seven folds and layers
of skies are never theirs
with all the claims and cares
in the estate of God
we all have our due shares!
Immense vastness that poem carries in the lines...a thoughtful write up, indeed;
for this one, i must tell you, I do not call or think it a poem at all, but a v simple comment that came to mind after reading that poem, and Dinesh ji is certainly not the addressee here! There are two sides to everything and his poem gave me a ground to talk the other way round!
Beautiful poem Shahzia. I like to watch kite flying. As you said Sky is not owned by anyone, any one can fly kite as long as they want and as much as higher they want. Everyone has their shares in estate of God. Controlling kite lies not in strength of thread but our presence of mind control it very well. Same we can compare to our life. Poem has indepth meaning and I loved reading it....
You are right nobody owns the sky, that goes for everything, because we are all the children of the Creator and nobody is better then the other.
Well said Shahzia! But why do we seek to Own anything? We are all guilty I would guess of wanting to, but why? We find love in a person, not to own them but to learn and indulge in what they share with us, we have children that we nurture and we hope will flourish in their own way, not to own. The same with chattels, its only in passing we 'own' as with art (of any kind) , houses, land, countries, not to own but borrow for a while.
Yes, 'None can own the skies! '. You've so beautifully laid out our simple thoughts in this poem through the analogy of kite flying! 'with all the claims and cares in the estate of God we all have our due shares! ' - How thoughtfully you have spoken of our rights in the 'Estate Of God', a beautiful end to a beautiful poem. I must say here, I liked most of the readers' comments posted on your poem.
Well penned.For the time being US owns the skies of Afghanistan and Pakistan.They bought it dunno for how much costs.The other skies are preparing to beat falcons because China, Iran and Russia does not want any more Pakistan from their lands.They learned Indian and Soviet lessons through times and also thorugh Iraq-Irans islamic brotherhood of 1980-88 that killed 2,5 million Iranians itself from western supplies to Iraq.
We can fly free if we choose it so, and never fall for worldly messages which want to pull us down.
sky is the limit for your words...........feelings of readers fly with your thoughts...
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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12/3/2025 10:13:21 PM # 1.0.0
a great write Shahzia. Happy New Year Dear.