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When You Return

When you return 
To the old village 
In its awake, in its pebbles
Say my greetings as well
Where I spent my years
In its dust, in its greens
In its shadows, in its heat

When you return 
To the old land,
In its mountains, in its deserts
Where I travelled to find
You and myself, 
Say my greetings as well
In its hunger, in its elation
In its despair, in its wilderness

When you return 
Say my greetings as well
Where I belong, 
In its good, in its bad
In its wrongs, in its rights!

Kashkin

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Political Interventions From Abroad

Sit there in formations with assumption
Our elected representatives by the nation 
From principles of awareness and wisdom
To welcome, the return of common sense
Clad in white from stains of their past
As they sigh deep and hollow from days 
Gone in rivers of blood and fire, they claim
Crossed we have these roads, 
What blood and fire, my friends
The old rhetoric and now the reconciliation
Modes have changed, but remain the same
The way they operate, with indecision
Election of leaders, the task so unfamiliar
And difficult, to practise and to formulate
Where is your structure and where is merit
Or is it just the old will written in haste
Will decide, of what we you are and we 
They say we will choose, with arrival
Of an eighteen year old boy, 
Or from galleries of commerce and civilization 
Not much he knows or the world around him
Only the ways of Pharaohs and dictators 
In prevalence, the old modes of power 
And they say it’s the party of the people
In strange ways, we have assumed
These principles upon ourselves
Fruits of favouritism and approach 
Why is it you cry, my friend? 
What is it you have lost, my nation?
From created vacuum and of created confusion
These are our politicians, now willing to work
Lessons well learnt with perfect handshakes
And deals struck, in haste and in fear 
Fools you are if you still don’t understand 
Only time will tell but not them 
The truth, for once in this lifetime
Or next, as this euphoria hits us!

Kashkin

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Major Farhan

In silence, they resume their lives
Broken and re-patched, tired
From all that pain and sacrifice given
Of all those years 
In service for adventures of the state 

For wars not of their own choice
For reasons – alien and idiotic 
in conversation, words of despair
of all what they have given 
the old oaths hound them 
to their graves from its moments
when the swords were struck 
upon their shoulders

as their bodies sunk, in spirit
to serve and to defend against
enemies of the state, 
with all their heart and mind,
where no questions are asked
only to serve, the grand purpose

find they themselves at times 
in situations, alien and foreign
cannot kill our own, 
our hearts are not there
our hands are frozen,
too heavy the burden, 
the old oath and its mechanics

There was once a soldier
Major Farhan, of what I heard
the distant handshakes, 
and the old prayers in Waziristan
to walk as he did, as they carry him 
prayers for well being and return
return they do, return they will
in pieces and in danger,
as their bodies sway 
in distant corners, in distant wrath
for all what they have done,
the old perception, 
the old orders, the old oaths,
there to hound them, to kill


Here they await, 
the two children and the woman
the dispersed existence and fate
The empty coffin and few bits
Of existence, blown up 
As the rows are drawn
into thin air and memory
The old silence, and salutes
As they stand shoulder to shoulder
The two children and the woman!

Kashkin

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Of Human Voyage

Those old poets and painters
In books and carved inscriptions 
on the streets, in old pages 
of time and its history 
from old struggles and inquests
and there is me and my journey
of human voyage and freedom
borne out from expression 
and desert, of many years 
of my belongings, in verses
the old hidden characters 
as I scrawl through my mind
few more, just one last moment
for amusement and seduction
as this mind embraces its nemesis!


Kashkin