<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=464458" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>O! Poets And Men Of Letters Awake</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The world is in the shadow of nuclear war<br>Our own neighbor chatters to use the nuclear devices <br>As if a thing common or a child’s play.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O! Poets and Men of Letters awake <br>Only and you can save the earth from the imminent doom.<br>The weapons are with the so-called civilized nations, <br>As if the guns are in the hands of monkeys, <br>We too have processed uranium <br>Enough to combat the challengers many times, <br>But we possess patient hearts in the chests<br>And minds discreet, prudent and judicious in the heads. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O! Poets and Men of Letters awake <br>From the slumber deep for it is a time to weep, <br>Use your pen and paper and moments of nights and days, <br>Your talents, the power of your embellished words, <br>Weave the stories of novels dramas, and lines of poesy<br>To shake the inner most part of the souls <br>Of the leading heads of humanity who make a trade <br>On human blood: the most precious gist of the universe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O! Poets and Men of Letters awake <br>Infuse into them astuteness to discern the difference <br>Between just and unjust, between right and wrong, <br>Instead of making tiresome efforts to please the kings<br>And approving their all actions though immoral, <br>Write not panegyrics lest you should become accomplices<br>Against the crime of trampling sanctity, <br>And deforming magnificence of the Mother Earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O! Poets and Men of Letters awake <br>Impede the itchy fingers of the leprous hands <br>Lest they should press the buttons in their own craze, <br>If once they push the buttons, there will be a chain in reaction, <br>And then holocaust, extinction of biological life, <br>The cities, the towns, and the villages big or small, <br>The parks and streets, the houses and huts will become silent.<br>The earth will move dull drab, into spaces around the sun, <br>With a load of skeletons, skulls and bones, <br>But all purposeless like an astray stallion whose veteran<br>Is killed in the battle and it runs away unrestrained.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Muhammad+Shanazar">Muhammad Shanazar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=464458" data-title="O! Poets And Men Of Letters Awake de Muhammad Shanazar" data-description="The world is in the shadow of nuclear war Our own neighbor chatters to use the nuclear devices As if a thing common or a child’s play. O! Poets and Men of Letters awake Only and you can save the earth from the imminent doom. The weapons are w..."></div> </div> </div>

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