SWEDISH SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES NETWORK
A POETIC NATIONAL MESSAGE, ON EID-UL-ZOHA 2004:
On the golden occasion of our traditional Eid celebration,
from a fairyland, the poet issues a wonderful declaraton,
in the name of his poor Pakistani nation,
as a poetic message of congratulation.
The poet is sipping a red wine
in order to adapt a creative line
of high thinking and fantasy
that leads to the best poetry:The ice is breaking.
The military is taking
back its destructive atombomb
at every price and every sum
in order to prevent its power generation
from every weapon of mass destruction
exposing Abdul Qadeer
like a mysterious Peer
through a trial on the front page
putting him into an iron cage
cutting his every nail
giving him a funny tail
as a beast of prey
making a big play
for the whole of our humanity
easing the soul of our humanity.The people are rushing.
The people are discussing
rising their voices,
making their noises,
on Nine Eleven, on terror, on Osama bin Ladin,
on Saddam, on Blair, on Bush, on Powell Colin,
on IMF’s loans
on nations’s bones,
on people’s poverty,
on rulers’s luxury,
on every global marketing,
on every charming cheating,
on every beauty competition
on every kind of exploitation
on every system, on every state apparatus,
on every class, on every rank, on every status
on every issue and on everything.My dear! the world is changing.
The women are being clever and cunning.
With their lovers, the women are running,
through their civil marriages,
by driving their own carriages.
Without any veils on their smiling faces,
the women are participating in all the races.The women look after their long hair as their wombs.
In their purses, the beauties have their mirrors and combs.
Today’s aware housewives are nor more house pot’s fishes.
They neither sleep with their husbands without their wishes.
They hate to create so many babies,
whom swallow their swans like bodies.
Beyond every dark corner,
where in the name of honour,
they slaughter everyday a virgin as a dove,
whose only sin is a sin of an innocent love.Yousaf Jhelumi
Patriot, and progressive poet. Ancestral Address: Rajipur, Tahlianwal, Jhelum, Punjab, Pakistan.
Now residing in Spånga, outside Stockholm, Sweden.
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Last updated 2005-03-02
