Gamble It Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

Ka der lachar wey mo de gharhey manai kshezhda -
Jeworgara yara ywa jeworey prezzhda…
-Pashto folk song by Neena khan and Gul khan, early eighties.

The most delectable preciousness
Gamble it,
The thought and fantasy,
Your reputation,
Name and pride
Gamble it,
To your love.
The visible reality
To the confusions
The reverent bows before
The walls of stones,
Gamble it,
To the winning wines
Passages of love ridden journeys,
Do not stop
On the mean spirited roadhouses.
To the foolishness
From the country you are in
To the country you are heading to
Gamble it,
To the unseen
Irreverent
Unholy
Upholstered rainbows
The untruth,
Gamble the retractable to the unknown
Comfort to the spirited adventure
Gamble the night
The day,
Gamble the gold of heart
To the rushing blood, the rivulets
Of talk to the ocean of silence
Slavery to freedom,
Gamble every possession
Every surrounding,
Gamble it,
The static step for a wild dance,
Ascend
Gamble it,
The apparent to the beauty
Intense,
The paradise
Shore to a voyage
Destiny to wayfareness.
Gamble it,
all knowledge
all dignity and majesty and elegance,
all robes of honor
all sense of good and bad,
all religions
all laws
all practices and mores and customs,
all language
all books
all libraries
all ages
all life
Gamble it,
Lose it to the spirit of freedom and liberty.

Sadiqullah Khan
Islamabad
January 20,2015.