What Lies Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

What Lies

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It will not go smooth down the throat,
Tongue would either lie or get bitten,
How much of truth and how bent.

Statues are given shapes by hands
Imagined in weirdest colours to breath
A satire's beauty would be demolishing
Some statues are headless and others
Without arm.

History if repeated would laugh at the
stupidity of the men and women,
who made heroes.
The heroes ashamed themselves nevertheless.
For the art to flourish and poetry remembered,
Wait in other world to complete the spectator's cycle.

The hero was just a human or given powers,
For some to worship and for the bold to strip.
Listen to the cause and be the stealth wave
of freedom. We all know what leaders are
And what they did.

We all know what lies are woven into
The history of mankind.

April 27.2012

Friday, April 27, 2012
Topic(s) of this poem: love and art
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Shahzia Batool 27 April 2012

What Lies...! a BIG? ? ? Though...it really did not go smooth down the throat , , , rather raised many questions! ! ! now what to do? ? ? should history be read again? ? ? or vision be changed? ? ? Shaw shattered the romantic, idealistic notions of common people about heroic concepts attached to the legendary heroes.....but here...under our sky...if we shuffle the pages of history with this new angle, many idols will be seen disfigured... what lies? who will satisfy the inquisitive mind, that is the question...? ? ? who is the judge of right n wrong? ? ?

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