Cry The Beloved Country
Gulzar Bano - Lahore January 3, 2007

Be proud Karachi Lahore Peshawar Quetta
The Iast century records a historic birth
A heroic girl child of Destiny in Pakistan is born
Her bones close to the land of Moenjodaro
Her blood with the power of the mighty Indus
Her will with the measure of the Karakurrams
She could on IV be named BENAZIR

Beauty and brains without fear Benazir inherits
Tutored by a gra.ciou5 mother
In the shadow of a charismatic father
When the gallows devour her towering parent
She stands by her mother" a granite pillar
Mother and daughter cannot be destroyed
By the forces of land or sea or air

They hold a and lead the PPP
The people yearning for dignity with Roti Kapra Makan
A Muslim woman in obscurantic Zla's chauvinistic land
Twice Benazir is elected Prime Minister
Fatherless brother-less she is never alone
The rich in wisdom and or wealth seek her
The poor in worship and penury follow her

 In power or powerless at home or exile
Benazir has home in Punjab Sindh The Frontier Baluchistan and Kashmir
No other politician can achieve such presences
Exiled she still meets the high and mighty of the world
Nourishes her fearless ambition and wilt for Democracy

 In her fifty fourth years she plunges into destiny
A global woman, not only daughter of the East
Her mother can no longer embrace her
A phenomena she returns in Hope for Pakistan
Unable to watch and kiss her own children
Karachi welcomes Benazir with tumultuous joy
The angel of death permits her homecoming glory

Benazir now in touch with Eternity moves every day
Her devotees elated energized mesmerized
In the armored commandoed city she must descend
Set agendas for free fair elections in the land
In Rawalpindi she rides on a pinnacle of victory

Her love for Pakistan people never more passionate
Her faith in the oppressed never more firm
The earth trembles with the love of thousands
Her human brain defeated, her heart victorious
Benazir must salute, must salute on the Twenty Seventh of December 2007
Death her companion since her father's death
Benazir salutes
In maturity she grasps Eternity
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