Earth Quake In Pakistan October 8, 2005

Amid the rubble innocence lay

Not long ago, school bells rang
A mother cooked tending to her families needs

Not long ago, a sparrow sang
A father tilled the field with ease

Not long ago, there was a smile
Along the tender lips of a child

And this godly hamlet hummed for miles
While, trepidations the earthly sphere compiled

The winds form the east mingled well
With the aroma of an oncoming hell

“Kither ho tum mary Jan” (1)
Was heard amid the darkened dawn

A mother searched at a frantic pase
All her continents now effaced

Her heart was beating ever faster

As she heard of her sons disaster

A child wailed in the distance
“Ami Ami kither ha apae
Keu nahe hay ape meary sath”(2)

As tears dripped form a mother’s eyes
She made her last desperate cries

“in na lil la wa in na e lyaea ragoen”
don’t worry son I will be with you soon

A father froze in his work
His body quivered to the earth

A fisher formed in the ground
No child, mother, father were to be found

In earthy coffins they now lay
Flesh and bones encased in clay

Not a heart beat not, not a sound
Not a body to be found

Amid the rubble innocence lay

 -Naqi

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