• Poems on Life
    • Butterfly effect
    • children on the street
    • Come see
    • labelled destiny
    • Relic
    • A tree woke up
    • Heaven will rain
    • Removed from reality
    • Unless We Touch Flowers
    • Drive towards
    • long gone but here
  • Spiritual Poems
    • My thought is now electric
    • I speak in magical metaphor
    • comes the sacred
    • gently astonished
    • The absurd
    • I do not know…
    • mightier wings
    • Only Sun Remain
    • Others Bolder than I
    • Perspectives
    • sprinkle some sun and wait
    • tiny prayers
    • Wear a red sky today
    • Wakened Sea
    • what flowers have found
    • My father spoke to me
    • The Cold
    • Whitman Devastated
  • Urdu Poetry
    • Ho Jai
    • Noorani Roshni
    • Hum Nay Dekha
  • Other Poets
    • Introduction to Poetry
  • Thoughts
    • The Good Atheist
    • Thoughtful vs Literal
    • Levels of Prayer
    • Being Whole-Hearted
    • Debating Feelings
    • You are crafted by events
    • Self-Honesty
    • Love without Analysis
    • Cruel Beliefs
    • Knowing and Believing
    • Good Faith, Bad Faith
    • Unbiased Discussion
    • Faith Without Compassion
    • Peace in the Background
  • Poems on Life
    • Poems on Life 1
      • Butterfly effect
      • children on the street
      • Come see
      • labelled destiny
      • Relic
      • A tree woke up
    • Poems on Life 2
      • Heaven will rain
      • Removed from reality
      • Unless We Touch Flowers
      • Drive towards
      • long gone but here
  • Spiritual Poems
    • Spiritual Poems 1
      • My thought is now electric
      • I speak in magical metaphor
      • comes the sacred
      • gently astonished
      • The absurd
      • I do not know…
    • Spiritual Poems 2
      • mightier wings
      • Only Sun Remain
      • Others Bolder than I
      • Perspectives
      • sprinkle some sun and wait
      • tiny prayers
    • Spiritual Poems 3
      • Wear a red sky today
      • Wakened Sea
      • what flowers have found
      • My father spoke to me
      • The Cold
      • Whitman Devastated
  • Urdu Poetry
    • Noorani Roshni
    • Hum Nay Dekha
    • Ho Jai
  • Other Poets
    • Introduction to Poetry
  • Thoughts
    • Thoughts 1
      • The Good Atheist
      • Thoughtful vs Literal
      • Levels of Prayer
      • Being Whole-Hearted
      • Debating Feelings
    • Thoughts 2
      • You are crafted byevents
      • Self-Honesty
      • Love without Analysis
      • Cruel Beliefs
      • Knowing and Believing
    • Thoughts 3
      • Good Faith, Bad Faith
      • Unbiased Discussion
      • Faith Without Compassion
      • Peace in the Background

Relic

February 24, 2009

They’ve finally managed it
I heard it on the radio on my way
they’ve done with it altogether
it was just a minor irritant they found
(whatever was left of it, that is)
so they took it right out of the system
the decision was taken at the highest levels
the government machinery, everyone  agrees,
should work so much better now,
with this relic of bygone days,
this leftover honesty
completely gone

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Poems on Life

Ali Ghaznavi

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