My Sindh! I am your son, trust me, I shall give you last drop of my blood
[author title=”Ghulam Nabi Mughal ” image=”https://sindhcourier.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Ghulam-Nabi-Mughal-Sindh-Courier.jpg”]Ghulam Nabi Mughal, born on March 12, 1944, is an acclaimed short story writer and novelist of Sindhi language. Based in Hyderabad city of Sindh province of Pakistan did his maters in International Relations from University of Sindh, graduation in law from Sindh Law College and acquired higher certification and training in Food Grain Storage and Management from Kansas State University. He had joined Food Department, Government of Sindh in 1967 from where retired as Regional Director in 2002. He has authored around fifty poems in English over a decade. [/author]
My Sindh – your alien sons!
A land of aliens
Where are your own people?
You know were they massacred?
Were they made “Shooders?*”
My Sindh!
I am your son
Trust me! I shall give you last drop of
My blood
We came from mountains full of snow
We galloped on horses from west
We arrived with pale rays of sun
Your refuge was full of sweet water
You had shelter and moonlit mountains
You had lap of Mother
We were unwanted rejected & castaways
From lands of our ancestors, and
You are Mother Sindh
I am your son
Our generations have worshiped you!
I am your son
Will never you!
My forefathers – aliens came to you refuge
I was conceived in that refuge
I am your son — O’ Mother Sindh!
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We are two – way persons
We are two – way persons
Going parallel like rails
Why don’t you understand?
We could not meet on ends!
Heart is busy pounding for life
Life is the last station we left
I felt going without love
My soul feels no love no life!
Understand me
How can I love you?
Soul, dying slow and searching you
In the darkness of heart
Where your name falls like tear drop.
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*Shooders – Low-caste/Untouchables