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I Cry On Failure

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…

Someone with its eyes;
Watches me
Swatches me
With the waves of its smile
Always flies and spies
Upon my feelings,
Tries and ties
My heart and mind
However,
No one can bind me,
In such a manner
No one can find me
With the knowledge-scanner
Until qualification of spirituality
Since I am, I, within, I
In every heartbeat
My love and truth, fly
In search of a landing place
For the honesty and purity
But mostly, as a failure of that,
I cry; I cry, I cry, I cry
My love and truth, fly
But mostly, as a failure of that,
I cry; I cry, I cry, I cry