Poet and his lantern’s moon sighting rendezvous

by B. R. GOWANI

Popular religious cleric Mufti Abdul Qavi with social media sensation Qandeel Baloch PHOTO/Channel 24

Mufti Abdul Qavi likes celebrities and stays in the news
lately he found singer Qandeel Baloch as his new muse
Kavi means poet and Qandeel means lantern in Hindi Urdu
poet needed light and lantern wanted to hear poem true

so they met in his hotel room to break Ramzan’s fast
the rendezvous was great and they both had a blast
Qandeel took some selfies and shot a video of two
for this social media person, it was a great coup

she released the photos and the video which went viral
putting Mufti in a complicated and controversial spiral
Mufti has been removed from the moon-sighting committee
and his political party is very mad at him, it’s a pity

he explained: “she wanted to … get rid of a magic spell
and who’s better than me with knowledge of heaven and hell
she says: he had told me that “he would like [in eve, not noon]
to lay his eyes on my face before witnessing” the Ramazan moon

romantic Kavi didn’t want to see earth’s satellite’s stones
he was more interested in earthling’s fresh flesh and zones
no doubt, religious business needs to be taken care of too
but one can’t ignore the desires of equatorial zone, ooh

B. R. Gowani can be reached at brgowani@hotmail.com