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Dome With Echo Of Memories

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…

In the dome of past
The memories enter
In my mind as its echo,
With illustrating
My childhood, youth
And maturity
I cannot stop, my memories,
Not to attack
And occupy my brain
It hurts terribly
I feel broken
I am too weak
To escape from it
So I mostly surrender
To my memories.