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NOWHERE TO GO
Blue black sky
Hiding smog of the day
Polluted beaches
Streams turned into gutters.
No night-time rest
In the so-called advanced cities
Of modern-day progress.
Women offering themselves
To the highest bidder
As strip-tease acts abound.
Pimps strolling all night long
While gambling dens resound
With uncanny laughter
Of money squanderers.
Family systems have crumbled
And few people really care.
How lost are the men and women
Of these times!
What are we bequeathing
To the next generation
Have we ever thought about that?
The leaders of the world
Have turned a deaf ear
To the problems of the downtrodden
And the needy.
They are preoccupied
In furthering their expansionist designs
In lands where other civilizations survive.
Worse than the laws of the jungle
My eyes see this ironic side
Of advancement
Propagated by the world media.
But for how long
Will this race continue to fool itself?
Look at the destroyed remains
Of galaxies floating in space
Their light streaming down to us
Recounts how unbridled materialism
Ends up in the floating void.
But when will those who rule
Care to prevent the final doom
Of mankind
Is a question which hovers
As blue black as the nights
Of this perverted flock
Of Jekylls and Hydes
That struts about
In the garb of world's saviours.
Fie on them
All of them.
And also on those
Who make them sit
In the seats of power
The world over.
Where to go O Naveed
Where?
