by Aasi Mehmood Zamini
Come down!
For a while today!
Speak thee
And let me speak!
Come down
For a while
Do watch the world,
Engineered by you!
Some are inferior/poor
Some are superior/rich
Who belong to you?
Do mark them!
Wrinkled is the veil,
Torn shirt she puts on,
The naked she looks,
Who daughter is that girl?
She begs before stranger men,
Offer alms to your people!
Without breakfast
And bare-footed,
She ploughs
In the scorching beam,
Unbuttered pieces of meal,
She takes with spoilt molasses
Come down to taste it
A single time!
‘AASI’ was bestowed with insight
That utters the truth and tormented for,
“Why I am called atheist then”
Come to get [insight] it back!
(Translated from Sindhi by Hisam Memon)
*(Title provided. Ed.)
For the original Sindhi poem visit the above site.