Ladies Of Red Soil (In Their Own Views) Poem by Afzal Shauq

Ladies of the proud nation
living on the red soil
closed mouth
speaking nothing.

Lines in their faces
express
that left silent.

If they could but speak
surely
they would ask men....

' If I made of flesh
like you
being human

“Answer God
who then
made us different? '

“Man the greater...
Lowly
I have become

Meaningless my life
avoid
without a man”

“Also God's creature
inferior...
man's servant”

“You look down at me
so cruel...
yet I am yours...”
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Poem In Pashto By: Afzal Shauq
Translated in English By: Alley Boling
Book: 'TWIST OF FATES' Poem No.103/Page.144
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