Theme: Despair

Khush Bakht

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Fire that empty
stomach ignites
spreads like rumor
among the famine-struck.
 
Khush Bakht
had grown with
five poppy crops
and a happy harvest
each time.
 
This year she wept
hungry and unconsoled,
They set alight
the family crop.
Image © Hafeez ur Rehman

11-Nov-2013

More By  :  Hafeez ur Rehman

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