The scarecrow

Author: Fazal Baloch

If scarecrows could speak

No secret of the man

Would ever remain a secret

If you wish to unfold

Your and my innate mysteries

Then first

You must

Shatter a scarecrow

With an arrow

And see in whose grave

People lower the carca

If scarecrows begin to travel

Many people like us

Would go into exile!

This Balochi poem by Munir Momin has been translated by Fazal Baloch

Published in Daily Times, May 23rd 2018.

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