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1. Dreams Lost In Water

   No dis­tance ever sep­a­rates
   Dreams and desires
   No mir­ror ever dis­solves
   Reflec­tion and water
   In one’s eye

   What graph would you make
   Of lines of thought?
   The tri­an­gle of pain
   Is with­out any angle

   Count­less races
   Have dreams alike
   But sleep and night-watch
   Are nev­er the same!

   Names are for­got­ten
   Codes alone come to mind
   In nuclear setups

   Dreams of radi­ant gen­er­a­tions
   Are smit­ten
   By atom­ic explo­sions
   Cities sink
   Nuclei dis­si­pate
   Orbits dwin­dle
   What remains
   Are ter­ra and sol
   In the dance of death
   God is a casu­al­ty.

   A moment of bright­ness
   In a light year
   Break­ing into smithereens
   In a mil­lion eons
   An acci­dent — yes
   But not an event
   His­to­ry is con­ti­nu­ity
   Bro­ken once
   Tele­scop­ic eyes, tired out, give up
   Their dis­tance watch­ing
   Lost plan­ets
   Bygone epoches
   Have no inter­po­si­tion.

   Who will look for
   Flow­ers
   In spring-fresh hands
   Of tiny tots?
   Who will see
   Dreams
   In eyes-yours and mine
   In cen­turies to be?
   No one is sure
   Of things lost in water!

   Poem by: Naseer Ahmed Nasir,1980.
   Trans­lat­ed from Urdu into Eng­lish by Dr. Satya­pal Anand and from Eng­lish to Span­ish by Dr. Teresin­ka Pereira.
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