Manto of Current Times

Love

Sex

Hatred

Partition

Massacre

Separation

Death

Ignorance

Humiliation

Loneliness

You drank everything

Like Manto

Yet people call you

Only alcoholic

 

It’s cirrhosis of liver

They will find on your post mortem

So sure they were about it –

the cause of your death

But if they were so sure

that you are going to die

Why didn’t they bother to stop you

 

Cirrhosis of others is easy to spot

Have they ever wondered about

their interpersonal cirrhosis

Deep down

They know they have it

Yet they never told each other

Fear of ostracization, you guess

This cirrhosis

their kids will find on post mortem

 

Manto must be laughing at them

As he laughed at himself

If you knew you would be cirrhosed,

there was no harm in saying “Cheers!”

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