The smallest coffins are the heaviest...

Mama, you told me only bad people
Hurt others and have guns
You told me they look like monsters
But this uncle who hurt me & my friends
Looked like us humans

Mama, you told me if I am good, I will be rewarded
But still this uncle punished me
I was sitting in my bench & talking to my friends
I heard some screaming loud noises
I was scared & I held my friends hand tight

Mama, you told me whenever in trouble or fear
Pray to God & he will save me from being hurt
In fear of not knowing what’s going on
I did pray to God to help me
But still I got hurt

I fell on ground mama
It is paining a lot
I am not able to talk
I am not able to move
Something is happening to me

Mama I am scared
I feel sleepy and my whole body aches
I see blood all around me
I see my friend bruised & soaked in blood
My eyes shut & tears roll down

Mama come and take me home soon
I don’t want school anymore
I want to see you now
I will not throw any more tantrums
Please mama, please take me home

Mama why are you crying now?
See me mama, I am next to you
Why have you put me in a box mama??
Please don’t lock me in the dark room
Trust me, I didn’t do any wrong now

Mama you don’t like me is it???
That you are giving me to somebody
I promise I will not trouble you anymore
Please take me mama
Don’t leave my hand

Mama, you are leaving me in this ground

I know when I throw tantrums in malls, you just leave me alone
And keep watching over me, by hiding behind some pillars
I thought you are acting deaf to me today, just like before
And will come running to me & hug in next few minutes

But I see that you are walking without looking back
I see that you are crying hard
Mama just open the box
I will just come walking beside you
And will not ask you to carry me

I know Mama that you will not be able to carry me
As I am heavy now..

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One of the worst attacks in history of mankind has happened in Peshawar this year. With heavy hearts we all bid adieu to those little souls, whose happy world was sunk in blood flood. Those merciless people who were able to kill these innocent buds, were never humans and they are just devils in human forms. There is no religion or belief says anyone to live by killing someone. Religion cannot be superior to humanity.

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The Ask...

 

I have been given, what is good
I have been given, what is much needed
I have been given, what is to be wanted
But still this is not, what I had
“Asked For”

If what is given, is what it means to be asked for
Then what is it meant by
“The Ask”
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With so many things happening around, you just think at times this is not what I had asked for. But everything turns out good at the end of trial. Just penned down these lines during one of those moments. Life is not just a YES or NO. It is either YES or something better. I would like to believe it this way.