Sugar Cubes Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

Parrot seeks sugar cubes
The master spoke honey and wine,
Could you put in hemlock the poison -
A mouth lush with song and line
A robe given the fervor of longing.
Be generous and graceful,
Confess, when you are not-
He said. The two things I learned,
Converse and write, speak and listen,
Never lose grandeur, nor elegance.
A slow step is worth a thousand leaps,
If not in haste and in ponder taken.

Sadiqullah Khan
Peshawar
January 24,2015.