If The Stone Sinks ...

We visited Khewra Salt Mines two weeks back.There we saw a mysterious lake,about which our guide said, " Throw a stone into it. If it sinks , your wish will some true! " It was a joke. Lake water in Khewra Mines is laden with high amounts of salt , increasing its surface gravity so much so that its impossible to drown a human, let alone a stone.I wrote a little poem about it.

Before you let your
tempest thunder
and
shower me with
cold-hearted censures;

Throw
as if by accident,

few words of love
as lifebuoy
as salt,
to keep me 

from drowning.

 -S.H

                                                        Posted From Sunrays

Dark Place

I am sorry if I don't make any sense here. Took the inspiration from Ursula K. Le Guin.

Success is somebody else’s failure...hmm.....

I want to talk about failure.

I want to tell you simply that I am failed.

Because I am a human being and failure was inevitable.

I met disappointment....injustice....betrayal...and irreparable loss...because simply I am a human being.

I find myself weak where I thought myself strong.

I worked for possessions and then find they possess me.

I find myself - - as I know I already have - - in dark place...alone...and afraid.

What I hope for now....only I can be able to live there...in the dark place.

As a woman....that dark place is the only house I can own without any other fight. I have my own room there.

In that dark place I am no more foreign....I am the native of that dark place.

I hoped I am never victims..hmm....but I have no power over other people.

And when I failed giving someone else a big success....and defeated....and in pain....and in the dark...then I remembered that darkness is my country....where I live and this gave me smile.

My roots are in the dark....the earth is my country.

Why did I look up for blessing -- instead of around....and down?

What hope I have lies there?

Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry....but in the earth I have looked down upon.

Not from above...but from below.

Not in the light that blinds...but in the dark that nourishes...where human beings grow human souls.

After all....one day we all have to settle in that dark place. Consider me...I have already accepted it.

Qillet Hee Qillet-wah Zardari sahib wah



Just to begin with, Zardari jee

$600 Million of Pakistani poor people in your Swiss accounts can provide  a quick fix beyond any doubt.

YOUR HIGHNESS,  your nation will be grateful for your action  - to bring back the economic normalcy so that life comes back to the right track.

*******Remember Zardari jee you once said, "Pakistan KHAPPAY."

 

Friendship

It would be good to know whether such thing as friendship actually exists.

hmm....I do not mean the opportunistic pleasure that two people experience in encountering each other when they think the same way about certain things at certain moments of their lives...

When they share the same tasks or the same needs.

I strongly believe...none of that is friendship.

Sometimes I almost believe it is the most powerful bond in life and consequently the rarest.

What is it’s basis?

Sympathy?

A hollow...hmm....empty word....too weak to express the idea that in the worst times two people will stand up for each other.

 Or perhaps it’s something else….perhaps buried deep in every relationship between two people is some tiny spark of erotic attraction.

Here alone in the forest....trying to make sense of life....I thought about that now and then.

Friendship...of course...is quite different from the affairs of those driven by morbid impulses to satisfy themselves in some fashion with others of the same sex.

The eros of friendship has no need of the body…still I am blank.

Photography From CN Tower

This is how the scenic view is when looking from the CN Tower, I hope my audience would like all the following snap shots done by me.