A Few Days More by Faiz

Only a few days, dear one, a few days more.
Under oppression’s shadows condemned to breathe,
Still for a time we must bear them, and tears, and endure
What our forefathers, not our own faults, bequeath:
Fettered limbs, each impulse held on a chain,
Minds in bondage, our words all watched and set down
Courage still nerves us, or how should we still exist,
Now with existence only a beggar’s gown,
Tattered, and patched every hour with new rags of pain?

- Faiz Ahmed Faiz -
 
excerpt from A Few Days More

February 13, 1911 - November 20, 1984

Pakistani leftist poet and author
and one of the most celebrated writers of the Urdu language.
 
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