<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=465035" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lullaby For Lost Generations</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">All rivers of taste have dried up<br>Only sands boil in pans<br>Tyranny of migration has struck the towns<br>Birds have forsaken their nests.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Judgements descend from heavens<br>So it is said in books, testaments<br>Secrets of hearts are culpable offences<br>It's crime to feed at mother's breast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">''He had gone to buy a feeder<br>Before curfew time; <br>Hasn't come back.''</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kids, go to sleep<br>Stories, written on waters<br>Are narrated by winds to sails<br>Of sinking ships, of men in submarines<br>The oceans in their eyes were dry at parting<br>Yes, the sands of journey<br>Had marked all pores of the body<br>'' Keep Quiet ''.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whole life-spans pass awake from sleep<br>A single frozen moment is difficult to pass.<br>The sun at the roof's height comes and goes<br>Come, give a call to those<br>Who had heard Israfael's bugle<br>And gone to eternal sleep on the battle front.<br>Their children remain awake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Translated from original Urdu by Dr. Satyapal Anand)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Naseer+Ahmed+Nasir">Naseer Ahmed Nasir</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=465035" data-title="Lullaby For Lost Generations de Naseer Ahmed Nasir" data-description="All rivers of taste have dried up Only sands boil in pans Tyranny of migration has struck the towns Birds have forsaken their nests. Judgements descend from heavens So it is said in books, testaments Secrets of hearts are culpable offences It's c..."></div> </div> </div>

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