No distance ever separates <br />Dreams and desires <br />No mirror ever dissolves <br />Reflection and water <br />In one's eye <br /> <br />What graph would you make <br />Of lines of thought? <br />The triangle of pain <br />Is without any angle <br /> <br />Countless races <br />Have dreams alike <br />But sleep and night-watch <br />Are never the same! <br /> <br />Names are forgotten <br />Codes alone come to mind <br />In nuclear setups <br /> <br />Dreams of radiant generations <br />Are smitten <br />By atomic explosions <br />Cities sink <br />Nuclei dissipate <br />Orbits dwindle <br />What remains <br />Are terra and sol <br />In the dance of death <br />God is a casualty. <br /> <br />A moment of brightness <br />In a light year <br />Breaking into smithereens <br />In a million eons <br />An accident - yes <br />But not an event <br />History is continuity <br />Broken once <br />Telescopic eyes, tired out, give up <br />Their distance watching <br />Lost planets <br />Bygone epoches <br />Have no interposition. <br /> <br />Who will look for <br />Flowers <br />In spring-fresh hands <br />Of tiny tots? <br />Who will see <br />Dreams <br />In eyes-yours and mine <br />In centuries to be? <br />No one is sure <br />Of things lost in water! <br /> <br />Poem by: Naseer Ahmed Nasir,1980. <br />Translated from Urdu to English by Dr. Satyapal Anand and from English to Spanish by Dr. Teresinka Pereira. <br />Copyrights (C) All rights reserved<br /><br />Naseer Ahmed Nasir<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dreams-lost-in-water/
