Much Grief Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

The day the plane was downed,
I had much grief of my own
But from the strings of your lyre
Come, these notes of sad melancholy;

Though I hold a river of tears in my eyes
Into your lonely spring it surged in floods.
This is no time to rethink the cause
This is the time to pray light in the dark.

-On downing of the Malaysian Airline plane MH17 in eastern Ukraine on July 17 2014.

Sadiqullah Khan
Islamabad
July 24,2014.