R(e)volution Pakistan

The leader's who have plundered mercilessly,
The people who have watched haplessly,
We sat silently amongst the mob,
Sojourning ideas of a tomorrow we may not see,
We know they're wrong but so are we,
Sitting comfortably with ambitions of cupidity,
For reasons which may seem unsure,
What's there to gain for the selfish ego?
Rising and falling at every juncture,
Listening, Waiting, passing Responsibilities
Relenting for the change we want to see,
But hoping someone else would do it for me

The miasma in Islamabad is always the same,

Familiar faces sitting in different colours,

Forming an alliance, breaking an alliance,

Sermons of change we have heard for long,

Slogans chanted are often believed,
Some are heard before, Some are new,
Knowing they are all but true,
How long will we continue thinking,
That the same faces will save us from sinking?

Evolution of the mind must begin,
Before revolution of ideas,

It makes the bed for shattering dreams,

Inveighing Toru's for being themselves,

The misbegotten reasons for all our misfortunes,

The passion with which we point fingers,

The blame is but ours to burden,

For the young are misguided by a false premise,

But only after the glowering eyes are softened,

Soon before the wealthy sybarites learn to surrender,
and the poor relinquish the enslaved mind,

Power is delivered from those who wield,

Nothing but the stoic rhetoric of the past,

Rise will then who set forth a new precedent,

Writing a new chapter with love and respect for all,

Equal rights and freedoms galore,

Satiety in relations with brothers,

Sobriety in the meetings with neighbours,

The truth lies chthonic for centuries,
Secrets of a state we ought to be,

Cryptic messages of the life we ought to live,
A life time so short in the time line of history,
A mere change of mind may be enough for me

-Said Chaudhry