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Message: <blockquote data-quote="saadat tahir" data-source="post: 3996" data-attributes="member: 495"><p><em>(baad’e samoom... wo tazeeana ik lehad ka …)</em></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3">Just wanted to buy Aasma a doll!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3">If possible for Haider a plastic ball!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3">from village back’ome, I shied a call.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3">Heer so wants a colorful shawl.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3">Suffering days for a better deal.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3">Barely keep life on an even keel.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3">Gave up wishing for lamb or veal.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3">Hardly the bills or our meters seal.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3">Pennies we cough through our nose,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3">blossom on our rags as bloody rose.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3">Who will be willing for asking those,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3">who bleed us white and hunker close.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3">Maan’s in hospital so many days,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3">I slog the corridors! Weary ways!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3">Across the graveyard a wind now flays,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3">by the mound where Father lays,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3">That everyday I trudge teary eyed.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3">Wandering! Why? My life has lied.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3">With my desires my heart too died,</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3">to a desolate breath it still is tied.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p><p></p><p>original</p><p></p><p>saadat tahir</p><p></p><p>14 June, 2k11</p><p></p><p></p><p><em>Glossary:</em></p><p></p><p><em>Aasma… common Pakistani name for girls.</em></p><p></p><p><em>Haider… common Pakistani name for boys.</em></p><p></p><p><em>Heer  …  proverbial folk lore name for a young lady.</em></p><p></p><p><em>Maan …  common noun, mother…here Motherland.</em></p><p></p><p><em>Father… common noun, here Quaid e Azam…father of the nation.</em></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><em>(baad’e samoom... wo tazeeana ik lehad ka …)</em></strong></p><p></p><p><em>Urdu translation of the title.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>

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