Dreams Lost In Water

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