Sayeed Abubakar

''There is no Jesus more
who will absorb
all your sins in his cross.
There is no Gautama more
who will play the flute of wisdom
sitting under the shade
of the Bodhi Tree.
There is no Krishna more
who will pour down
a cloud of love
into the thirsty eyes of Radha.
There is no Mohammad more
who will save you
from the clutch
of the hungry Fire.

Save a love-lorn poet, there is no savior more.''

''Birds have no country,
Fishes no country.
Rivers count no Army, no Border.

Showing thumbs to all raising guns and mighty kings,
the rivers move running, tearing all barbed wires
of the Border.

O Man, where have you got the Border
and the border-guards?''

''You say, 'I love the rain.'
But when it starts raining, you raise
your umbrella over your head.

You say, 'I love the Sun.'
But when it spreads its rays, you start
looking for shade.

You say, 'I love the storm.'
But when it starts blowing, closing doors and
windows you alone get seated.

You say, 'I love all men.'
But when a poor man comes at your door in danger,
in anger and in scorn your face turns red.''

''An innocent boy leaving the lap of mom
opened his fearful eyes in the war-trodden world,
and asked in a depressed voice, 'Where have I come? '
I told him the name of the earth.

The boy looked at the corners of the earth
and with wonder and pain, seeing the towns and paths
full of corpses and heart-rending bloods
he further said,
'Tell me how man lives in this hell.'

I said to him, 'Oh, it's a shame!
Where is man in this hell? '''

''When people detest war and death
like a dead rotten rat that spreads intolerable bad smell
which way a mad dog detests water for its hydrophobia, -
that habitation then can be called a country of worthless people
where the sun should not rise ever, it should not rain
and crops should not grow in the fields.''

''Toiletries are not necessary for your beauty,
silk-sari and gold ornaments are not necessary;
o flower, which dress you stay in, your beauty
speaks penetrating each cell of your whole body.''

''I can't help offering a basket of snail-kisses
when a woman like a duck stretches her lips wet with sunlight.
When a woman stretches her love-lorn hands, o Yusuf,
I can't refuse her like an impotent male.''

''You and me
me and you
flower-bee
grass and dew.''

''A rose has
bloomed so far,
I get smell,
can't see her.

A rose has
bloomed so high,
Nose gets smell,
can't see Eye.

Daylight comes,
daylight goes;
Sleepless I
love the rose.''

''They are men too like us.
They have the right to live.
They need love very much;
It's our duty to give.''