POEM: Maybe You Can’t Save Humanity

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 – Moniruddin Yusuf
English rendering: Mian Awal
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Alas! O humanity! O NATO, WARSAW, OIC
You all are pure gentlemen I see!
Where are your promises to save the Children?
Where are you to save men and women?

Maybe the little accidents do you ignore
Maybe many people are killed no more
Yet, the atomic bomb flies from tree to tree
Still from my home to thee.

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Its poison spoils everything and you and me
From high Heaven down to earth you see
The poisonous air travels to hit the heart
Sure, mankind doth fall apart
We drink black water and die
Patients eat fruit and die
Not for a day or month or year
Anniversary will come near.

Well, this is enough sin for today
To face the appointed Doomsday
So early to our dismay.

You hardly do care for Welfare
For money, money and money you are here
Covetousness has possessed you
Conscience has bid adieu.

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