Another New Year Poem by Dr Kamran Haider Bukhari

It’s party time, honey!
Why you are sad?
At this hour of universal happiness;
At this moment of fragile ecstasy.
Everybody is so happy and resplendent,
Then why you sit with a gloomy face;
Under the shadows of forecasted fears.
My love!
You are my sole hope,
You got to live many more new years
Happy and I won’t mind, even if oblivious.

I am not sad dear,
I am just little worried;
You cannot see what I am looking at,
And if you get a glimpse;
You would cry for years to come.

Another year of war, blood, disease, hunger
And sheer darkness;
Inflicted by our own mirror images.


-Kamran Haider
Written On
Jan 01,2009