Nasir Aijaz: Gogyoshi

Illustration: AI

Zero Hour

December surrenders to January at zero hour

The moment for the people to welcome the New Year

Wasting billions of dollars on bullets, fired in the air,

With thunders like the launch of military operations,

Instead of buying happiness to the poor.

Dreams Fly Out

I let loose the dreams

To fly out of the window

Like a bird

To enjoy the freedom under the open sky

Unlike me, languishing in a cage of the world.

Time does not stop

The clock stops ticking

Its arms are motionless

Complete silence prevails

It doesn't mean that

The time too has stopped.

Fight for the Right

Fight for the Right

Fight for the right

Come what may

Don't get suppressed by military might.

Humans are born free

Freedom is their birthright.

Nasir Aijaz, based in Karachi, the capital of Sindh province of Pakistan, is a senior and Gold Medalist journalist. He also worked as a TV Anchor for over a decade and conducted some 400 programs besides appearing as analyst in several current affairs programs on TV and Radio channels. He is award-winner author of ten books on history, language, literature, travelogue and biography. Some of his other books are unpublished. Besides, he has written around 500 articles in English, Urdu and Sindhi, the native language of Sindh. He is editor of Sindh Courier, an online magazine and represents The AsiaN, an online news service of South Korea with regular contribution for eleven years. His articles have also been translated in Arabic and Korean languages. Some of his English articles were published in Singapore and India and Nigeria. He writes poetry in his native language Sindhi, and in English. Some of his poems have been translated in Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, and Malayalam, Albanian, Italian, Greek and Arabic language published in Egypt, Abu Dhabi, Iraq, Bangladesh, India, Kosovo, USA, Tajikistan, Greece, Italy, Germany and some other countries. He has visited some ten Asian countries and attended international seminars.