Seeking Peace

SEEKING PEACE
By Shahbaz Isra Khan

Sun has descended with the fear of darkness

Mountains and deserts fearing with its sharpness

Plants and trees all in slumber

Wants to wake them from the tools of plumber

My home is submerged in the ocean of blood

Should wake my people to run out of flood

Ah! Shadows are here.

Everyone wants to see a golden ray of light

Through a sparkling diamond hole of sight

Rose is withering and bud is weeping

Life is lamenting and death is whispering

Sweet smell coming from Elysium daffodil

Is now pinching and stinking, a fishy mill

Ah! Shadows are here.

Enormous chasm has fallen in united mountains

Fire of hate is now rising from fountains

Flower that was a sign of a beauty tale

Now has a thorn on its petal and is pale

Black tears of moon falling on the face of earth

And are burning my heart like a hot hearth

Ah! Shadows are here.

Wake up! My people Wake up!

It is time to plant a red flower

To lead our nation on a way to tower (Nation = Humanity)

Brought up our land in the cradle of love

Then we be out of cage happy like dove

Make a bond with the strings of affection

Have to do this for the sake next generation

Yes! Shadows will vanish.

Take the children towards peace, heaven and feast

Our hands must be joined to drive away the beast

A beacon of light and desires should be sweetly lit

To make monster a man and a wishful serene wit

I want to see a fragrant and a calm day of light

In dark and dwindling ways a ray in twilight

Yes! Shadows will vanish.