Moonlight
‘Moonlight’ outlines the struggles of refugees. With all doors closing, hopes dwindling, and acceptance vanishing from the world, they are forced to leave their homes that they have been living in for long now. This poem requests everyone to walk shoulder to shoulder and hand in hand.
While the world is sleeping,
They are waking up,
And unfolding their memories,
As if a movie is projected on screen.
They are waking up,
And unfolding their memories,
As if a movie is projected on screen.
Son asking his old father-
“Where will they go?”
To escape from hatred,
In the silence of moonlight.
“Where will they go?”
To escape from hatred,
In the silence of moonlight.
And his father replying-
“Somewhere to an island of love,
Somewhere to a far far land.”
“Somewhere to an island of love,
Somewhere to a far far land.”
Their mothers taught them wrong,
That God is their father,
And the world their home.
That God is their father,
And the world their home.
How many borders will they cross?
Tell them the truth - “No one’s theirs”
And let them die in that moonlight.
Tell them the truth - “No one’s theirs”
And let them die in that moonlight.
But, they are folding their memories,
In the silence of moonlight,
They are leaving their nest
In the pacific moonlight…
- Syed Zamaan Abbas RizviIn the silence of moonlight,
They are leaving their nest
In the pacific moonlight…
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