URBAN JOYS AND SORROWS.

URBAN JOYS AND SORROWS. 

                           A.F.  EKBAL.               

   

The joys and sorrows of the towns 

Are like urban flats

Are too small and tiny 

Whose neighbors not known 

To each other. 

For knowing and meeting

Have to go through  

The watchman's register 

And to have taken a pass. 

Age of pleasures and sorrows too  

Are too small in the towns; 

Where posthumous deeds 

Held simultaneously by a few near ones,    

During the meeting near death bed 

On the day of death. 

Rest dwellers know the news 

Through the newspapers following day. 

Morning misery in towns   

Turns happy in the afternoon, 

And afternoon pleasure

Again turn sorrow in turn 

Amidst the happiness. 

You find in towns- 

Death in one street 

Ceremonial wedding in other 

Anything else can happen on the third ! 

Urban natizens attend  

Funeral procession in the morning

In the evening in poetry seminars

Or in musical night, 

Can also be honored in the hour of mourning ! 

Townsman meet the condolence meetings

To share their common tales 

To have a little break 

Sparing some busy moments 

Of their precious schedule. 

For townsmen- 

All pleasure and pain

Are there 'use and throw' 

And sensations not given up 

All they take place in the press notes ! 

                                15-01-2022.