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1. City Heights

   The earth had seen a dream
   to bear me in her womb, and
   nurture me;
   withstand severity of seasons, and
   changes of weather,
   make promises with the breeze, and
   to make passionate clouds her friend –
   All for me!

   The earth is a mother
   like everybody else’s mother –
   Even before the creation
   She knitted cloaks of verdant dreams
   for me;
   With the fiber from her green womb
   she knitted colourful velvet, silken socks,
   caps and clothes –
   with her deep hymns she’d prayed
   for blessings.

   The earth had seen a dream,
   She thought I’d grow up
   and bear flowers and fruits, and
   with my perfume seasons would breathe
   The names of the savoured tastes
   would belong to my fruits; and
   there’d be sunshine in the small branches
   birds leaving their nests would sing, and
   tickle their feathers.
   The beautiful loving pairs
   Would sit under my shade, and
   would vow never to part –
   with their red ablaze lips, would rise
   from the soil and inscribe
   each other’s name on my brown skin, and
   from my seeds new jungles would grow
   and stretch.

   The earth is mother, she had a dream
   but in the eyes of her sons, there is
   Another dream to realize –
   to touch the sky,
   to build plazas instead of parks, and
   the earth remains helpless as
   she watches painfully
   while they hack me down!

   Poem by Naseer Ahmed Nasir
   English translation by Bina Biswas
   Copyrights (C) Naseer Ahmed Nasir. All rights reserved.