PERWAIZ SHAHARYAR

 

Soldier

 

You are brave, beyond doubt

But how have you come to know

Whether they are culprits or innocent people

Whom do you shoot at sight

Aren’t you a slave of your Master?

What is difference

Between you and a senseless robot 🤖?

I agreed that,

You don’t disobey the orders

But whatever orders do you obey

Have you ever verified them?

A person ouster from the city

Absconder of the court

Eventually, becomes

The champion of political gimmicks

Rules on your brain 🧠

The Master, actually hates you

He pushes you

In the mouth of death

To save his own seat.

Have you ever thought,

Is he your lord

In true sense?

©️Dr. Perwaiz Shaharyar

New Delhi, India

 

You Will Forget Everyone

 

You will see,

I will love you so deeply

You will forget everyone

You will become my darling

Your world,

Your universe

Will constraint in me

My image

Will come down in the mirror of your heart

In the absence of me

You will not be able to even live

Without my imagination

In me

You live in such a way

Like nails grow in flash

Every moment in me

You live in such a way

Like beatings in a heart

In my conscience

You live in such a way

Like a soul is bound with the body

You just trust me

You are my real craving

You are my solace of heart

You are my luxury of life

You will see,

I will love you so deeply

You will forget everyone

You will become my darling

©️Dr Perwaiz Shaharyar,

Editor, NCERT, New Delhi, India

 

Global Warming

 

When we were living in jungles

In the caves of the mountains

We got brought up in your lap

You made us learnt how to live

Walk and move to places

Then, made us learnt to live at a place by building houses

You helped us in settlements

Made learnt how to cultivate

Life was healthy

You made us learn how to make love

Made us learn to increase the generations

But we ------

Blew the water canals by cutting your chests

Extracted minerals from your womb

Erected factories and mills

By cutting your timbers

Made run motor vehicles through your countless capillaries

With the help of fossil fuels

Today, your body is hitting

Your breathings are getting exhaust

Your lips are burning

The black smokes are coming out from your nipples

Till how long, the ice will be melting down from the peaks of your mountains 🏔️

The acidity of your intestines has begun to poisoning the biosphere

Today, there, everywhere, are crowds of such human beings,

Who are under pressure of the weights of their sins

Entangled in the battles and wars

Human beings are suffering from uncountable diseases and ailments

The beauties of lives have lost somewhere else

How innocent we are

How disobedient we are

We are ignoring our ensuing disasters

We have forgotten that

This beautiful Earth is our identity

We have forgotten that

Our vigour and energy are binding with you

Don’t, stop cutting forests

Don’t ruin the environment

 

PERWAIZ SHAHARYAR

 

Dr. PERWAIZ SHAHARYAR is an Editor at the National Council of Educational Research and Training, Ministry of Education, Government of India. He is a multilingual poet, story writer, and critic. He has bagged many awards and accolades from states and national academies. He has 200 published articles and research/seminar papers in his credit. He has a total of 20 published books of various genres in his credential. His two dozen poems have been translated by many award-winning poets in Polish, Indonesian, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, and Albanian languages.