Inevitable Xlviii Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

‘Telemachus, Now is the time to be angry.'
Odysseus to his son when the time came to deal with the Suitors.
From the movie The Odyssey 1997.

Historical determinism is inevitable,
History takes with itself what comes in its sway,
Political inevitability is a necessity -
Or be consumed, eaten up by the inferiors
Politics is not the end game, it must
Lead to virtue, and believe in goodness.

Sadiqullah Khan
Peshawar
September 21,2014.