Twenty Years Ago Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

Twenty years ago
The night would split into light
Seen from the window these same men
Who have gone now very old

I was sitting in the same corner
From where I saw much of my dreams
Running back above the line of landscape
The difference was that my direction was different

The sunset of the last Saturday was so pure
Except for the black birds that flew past it
What a wonder these houses emit emotions
And the young girls were playing in the fields

Feel the nature in the hearts of the ordinary
My heart leapt to the beauty of those eyes
The city in the evening was like a garden
I must have been drunk by the air of the night

Every precious moment that I have not spent
Not with you I was lamenting all the way
Be it this city or that city a sunset and a dawn
Be it this love or that love a moment and a memory

Islamabad
29/3/2010