Ateeq Siddiqi’s Maho-Saal
Majid Ali, M.D.
Shedding some common traditions
Many a time, based on myths
Deviating from truths
Seeped into the mainstream
Of the born
And the unborn.
Layers of words and meanings
Implications and connotations
Depicting views and reviews
With a meandering tone
Of the born
And the unborn.
Encamping with truth-tellers
Choosing culture of courage
Among pundits of Pakistani Journalism
Harboring trustees of facts
For the born
And the Unborn.
Suffocating in a land of scars,
Of malignant murderous wars,
In domains of drunken Czars
Seething, squirming parents,
Of the born
And the unborn
A scalding land parched for truth,
With lies strangled,
From hollow and the hoarse,
Truth mangled.
For betrayed hearts and dry eyes.
Truth of the old order wrangled
For the Born
And the Unborn
Returning truth
To the truth,
By some truth-keeper’s call.
Smashing the black wall,
Of deceit and lies
All shattered in Maho-Saal.