Ehsan Sehgal is a Pakistani-Dutch poet and writer. He moved to the Netherlands in 1978 to avoid persecution during the General Zia era in Pakistan and has lived in the Netherlands since. Ehsan Sehgal began his literary career in 1967. His first publication was a novel, but his consequent books were…
If you do not think
It is self-praise
Or self-promotion
I ask permission to say
Listen to that
The house is beautiful
The things, too
And atmosphere too
My talk and attitude
My morality, and character
Is also beautiful
I am also not ugly
Despite that
I miss and feel
The emptiness or absence
Of beautiful subject, object
Or any figure
That one, are you?
If yes
So, come
To complete
My feeling of beauty