Sahir In English Options

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Taken from http://www.sahirludhianvi.com/blog/index.p...h-translations/


BLOOD IS BUT BLOOD !

A slain Lumumba is by far mightier than a living Lumumba -Nehru

Repression is sill repression
Rising, it must flop
Blood is sill blood
Spilling it must clot.

Whether it clots on desert sands
Or upon assassin’s hands
On justice’s head or around shackled feet
On injustice’s sword or on the wounded corpse
Blood is still blood
Spilling, it must clot.

However much one lies in ambush
Blood betrays butcher’s hideout
Conspiracies may veil in thousand darkly mask
Each blood drop ventures out with burning lamp on its palm.

Tell oppression’s vain and blemished fate
Tell cruelty’s crafty Imam
Tell the UN Security Council
Blood is crazy
It can leap up to the cloak
It is inferno, it can flare up to burn grain-stock.

The blood you sought to suppress in abattoir
Today that blood moves out into street
Here an ember, there a slogan, there a stone
Once blood comes to flows
Bayonets are no avail
Head, once it is raised
Is not downed by law’s hail.

What is about oppression?
What is with its impression?
Oppression is, all of it, but oppression
From beginning to end
Blood is still blood
Myriad form it can assume
Forms such as are indelible
Embers such as are inextinguishable
Slogans such as are irrepressible.

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O NOBLE SOULS!
( translation of Sahir’s AI SHRIF INSANO!)

Upon bloodshed, all same
Eigen or the alien
After all humanity bleeds
Upon war, all same
In West or in the East
World Peace bleeds.

Whether bombs rain on homes
Or they fall on border
Progress’ conscience wounds
Whether our own or the others’
Fields on fire
Make life simmer
In hungers dire.

Wether tanks advance
Or they withdraw
The womb of earth steriles
Victory’s hurrah
Or the defeat’s condoling draw
Life over coffins riles.

War is itself a discord
How could war ever
Resolve problems?
Today it grants
Fire and blood
Hunger and want
It must tomorrow accord.

Hence, o noble folks!
War had better postpone
In compounds yours and the mine
Lamps had better burn on.

II

Must ascendancy’s measure then
End only in bloodsheds’ daze?
To dispel homes’ darknesses
Must homes burn, raze?

Why, war has other arenas too
Not only this mayhem’s battlegrounds!
Wisdom is life’s attainment too
Not only insanity’s this lowly bounds!

Come!
In this luckless world
Let’s spread thought’s light
Those that prop peace
Let’s arrange such wars’ flight

War against uncivilization, barbarism
Peace for progress and culture’s fare
War against macabre politics
Peace for human welfare.

War against poverty, slavery
Peace for better living’s grace
War against misled leaders
Peace for hapless populace

War against capitalist hegemony
Peace for public good’s affairs
War against war’s philosophy
Peace for peaceful life’s fares!