Let's Cry !!!

Let's Cry!!!

Let's cry

From all the fronts, from all sides .

Because they fear.

Our cry becomes dangerous

For their conspiracy they hatch .

And our silence encourages

These killers to kill more,

To inflict more pain,

To celebrate our poverty, mourning and helplessness.

Whenever we stop crying.

They start raining with

Bombs, bullets, and poisonous designs.

In complete madness, they take

To shooting , to bombing , to maiming  and then to torching us.

This makes us silent forever.

See in Iraq, what they did.

See in Egypt, what they are doing.

See everywhere; all around you

These monsters quenching their thirst

With the blood of innocent people.

They wear smile on their lips.

They seem friends.

But stab always on the back

They are the real man eaters on earth

Because they have no respect for women.

No love for children.

They are shameless.

I ask : how long will we be silent spectators ?

How long will we allow them to kill our people?

How long will we overlook their misdeeds ?

How long will we wait for retort?

How long will we see innocent lives on the gallows?

How long will we take to unite and fight these tyrants?

I must say: Let's cry

Let's cry... Let's cry...

Till they are scared to death.

Till everyone have enough to live.

Till everyone sleep happily. __________Sohrab Alam Ansari
                                                           Center of German Studies, JNU

LOVE IN THE NATURE

                                         LOVE IN THE NATURE 

She spread her locks the night

Her face was beaming with light

She was sitting on my right

Our hugging in the dark was very tight

Her contour of body I felt

To kiss her on forehead I knelt 

I found my lips to be at  melt

Her cloth entangled into my belt

The Sun was about to go down 

We forgot if it was dusk or dawn

Our love not at stop; it was on

A chain of light was coming from the town 

 The wind was blowing slowly 

She was kissing me softly

I was counting her hair knowingly

Seeing us, birds chirped happily

We were playing an unknown game 

This was like trying a wild animal to tame 

We both were warming ourselves in love's flame

At the dead of the night we came

_________________________Sohrab Alam Ansari

  

 

जब हम बच्चे थे !

जब हम बच्चे थे !

माँ के गोद में खेलते 

सबसे हरदम प्रेम थे मिलते 

खुशियों के थे फूल बरसते 

हर पल हँसते  रहते थे 

जब हम बच्चे थे ।

माँ के आँचल में लिपटे रहते 

भय से कोसों दूर हम रहते 

जग को आँगन से तुलना करते 

संसार उसे समझते थे 

जब हम बच्चे थे ।

दुःख- दर्द और पीड़ा का नहीं आभास थे होते 

जब हम माँ के पास थे होते 

रात को जब हम थे रोते 

लोरियाँ हम सब सुनते थे 

जब हम बच्चे थे ।

अमीर कौन गरीब कौन 

मीत कौन शत्रु कौन 

हिन्दू , मुस्लिम, इसाई कौन 

हम अनभिग थे ; पर सच्चे थे 

जब हम बच्चे थे ।

राम-रहीम में भेद ना करते 

सब घर जाते खेलते और खाते 

ईद, दशहरा और होली भी संग 

हम मनाया करते थे 

जब हम बच्चे थे ।

_________________Sohrab Alam Ansari

Unforgotten Love

The whole society was against me
Because she was in love with me

She had to bear much pain because of me

Her relatives were pouring anger on me

She was rich but I was poor

She was from higher caste but I was from lower

Her parents were mad in much anger

My parents were always very somber

Many a time I got threat; on the road, in the house and on the street

They told me this mistake not to repeat

Every time I suffered a rapid heartbeat

My letters were opened and crushed under their feet

My heart was dreaming about her

The very time my father told me to forget her

I was silent and also my mother

From my eyes were trickling down warm tear

One by one the letters were torn and put on fire

I was screaming and crying with much ire

I was going to lose all my desire

They were giggling and creating  satire

I stopped eating for days

I lost each and every hope's rays

I had lost all my courage

I was tied and put into the cage

The cage made my life sorrowful

This was a jail which was painful

She was sent to Liverpool

She was far away but not forgetful

My imprisonment ended; I came out

My parents were forced to leave the village out

An old man gave me their whereabouts 

With much difficulties I found them out

My mother was cooking on the road side  

My father was suffering typhoid 

Seeing them in such condition I cried

Till the time she had become someone’s bride

An orphan

Mother, why you left me alone
Before you, father had gone
I am  not much grown
There is much pain in my bone

People laugh at me and make my fun
Because I am an orphan



I come home every day at night
I feel  everywhere your sight
While begging on the road at night
Dogs come near me to bite

With much fright I start to run
Because I am an orphan



Here everybody avoids me
My pant is torn and above knee
I put my life at stake even for a single penny
Even when the weather is cloudy, rainy or sunny

I get slaps and scolds from everyone
Because I am an orphan



Since your demise I am here
In dilapidated house, on the road without anyone's care
Much pain I get inflicted and try to bear
In the chilling cold I have nothing to wear

 I go out and bring some twigs to burn
Because I am an orphan


Mother, you cooked for me daily
we ate a little but slept happily
Every morning you woke up very early
To make my future bright you worked honestly

For many a day I am hungry and speak none
Because I am an orphan


Now my body is weak , I have hunger
I feel much pain even in my slumber
Everyone has closed their door, even our neighbour
They are perhaps eating chocolates of different flavor

Into my room doesn't  peer even the Sun
Because I am an orphan
Because I am an orphan ...

A Woman's woe

My father was sad when I was born
I was a new entrant into the family unknown
My grandma was shouting at my mother at high tone
Dreams of my father seemed blown


My mother was always in tear
I kept clinging to her in great fear
She bathed me, dressed me, an oiled my hair
On her part she was totally fair


My father never loved me at all
Because I was a girl after all
I was kept confined inside the four walls
I was never allowed a stroll


One day I said, mother, I want to play
 She told me to go but to come without delay
With my tiny hands I made two dolls out of clay
And then to dry them in the sun I had to lay


In a day or two they became hard
They looked standing like guard
With great joy I declared
Hearing it my father beat me hard

I wept, wept and wept in the room
Where my brother was crushing mushroom
To clean, my father gave him a broom
My father kept on working on loom

I wept inside till the dead of the night
My mother came happily and told me to fight
She said the time has come to gain liberty and right
Our time has come to lead the world with pride
Now the cruel father was in much fright


                                           ______________Sohrab Alam Ansari

The freedom of India at threshold

As a child I remember
When whole country was united strong like timber
Fighting the Coloniser many lost their family member
My mother passed many nights without a slumber
I used to ask when is our number


My mother said we are fighting for freedom
We will build a beautiful India with our wisdom
Where everyone will get justice at random
Slavery will not make our life boredom
I used to ask when the time will come


The year I remember was nineteen forty seven
The celebration was from earth to heaven
In the streets, on the roads i saw huging eachother brethren
My mother was busy in distributing sweet to make life sweeten
I asked, mother, will you now not beaten?


Years after years passed in turmoil
Violence, killing, rape continued without fail
The criminals were caught but freed on bail
There were only the poor in jail
I asked , mother, is the government on criminals' trail?


By now my mother has become very old
She got beaten, tortured and robbed of her gold
She cried bitterly and told the untold
I don't find our India, it is sold
Sleep son before you are cold







____________________________Sohrab Alam Ansari