Jul 7, 2011

Kalam BaHu



I am neither a Sunni nor a Shia:
Both make me sick; both cause me heartburn.
The arid part of my journey ended
When I turned away from both
And plunged into the ocean of oneness.
Many dived into that ocean ill-prepared,
And drowned- Only the rare one who was able to swim across!
But those who held fast to their Master’s hand
Safely landed ashore.

May 18, 2011

"Wonder" in Wonder Bread.


Dear Marketing Experts,

You have been the sole reason for me to make me excited to have new things from the bottle of water which I had in school after witnessing the Red backs success in NFL or the shaving razor Mach3 including the Gel  just because you had influenced me through your advertisement campaign that I will get the best of shave and nourishing skin with a hot chick sleazing down my chin. But, that never happened I had to help my own self every time I shaved. 

Switching from some local undergarments to the branded one didn’t enhance my manhood or strengthen it but you fooled me in it by putting up the tag line “Strong Man with Strong Belief” I wonder today how one can be strong in his belief by putting on some specific brand undergarment.

You guys, didn’t stick to TV advertisement either since, you’re up to maligning me by putting up such sensual billboards and hoardings in the third world countries of these Bollywood and Hollywood actors with some mango drink and hair removing creams. C’mon you rich marketing expert I’m just lonesome engineer having my salary in peanuts can’t afford alcohol nor some good brand cigarettes’. Hence, you are making me a serial masturbater.

I request you that in this third world country which is republic as well as Islamic, dying with economy and violence. Please, stop campaigning with sensual advertisement that we lost our wives and forcibly asking our daughters to switch the channels on the "Prime Time".  

Dear Marketing Experts,

As being a Muslim and the citizen of Islamic Republic of Pakistan. I want to address a serious issue which I have been facing because of you guys while watching Television or remotely moving around the city. It is the sleazy hair removal creams and fruit drinks ads which may cause nudity in the society and can create negative impacts in the mind of the infants and teens.

Please, have some role in society you have the power to create a positive impact.

I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
~Ogden Nash, "Song of the Open Road," 1933

Mar 16, 2011

My Dying Wish

Inside my body lay in me,
lay in me it can be
To prowl the night in an endless plead
The slide in glide of arrow flee
Into my eyes i see a glow to an ending final blow
Look and see for its me a million years of history
Just a tale with in a tale
My heart knows no bounday for its me don’t you see
I’m begging to be free
I’m not just one that lay in me
But to that haven’t seen allow me my one wish before you do… with my flesh
A faint whisper from me to you
the lick of teeth
the tiger speak
I beg of thee you’re ending me.

Feb 9, 2011

Me and the Long Road




I am walking on the road with the burdens and the load;
Where no one can spare neither one can share;
My joy and my griefs;
My lies and my beneath;
Where everyone gets the score;
On his deeds and more;
And gets his rewards for all his even and odds.
From there
If i look back i see many scattered tracks;
My past chapters of life and stories which I’ve survived;
Are all ready to be ready before i sleep to death;
And nothing of this sort I’ll see since, there won’t be any long road or me.