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OPEN THE BOUNDARIES

OPEN THE BOUNDARIES POET: Dr.ZiaUllah Zia drziaullahzia@gmail.com (Translated by the poet from his own Urdu poem) ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Passports and Visas have enchained The people, Since Nineteen twenty (1920) All the ways of progress are restrained And frozen are the wheels of economy Costliness is killing the ordinaries Open the boundaries ......................................................... May your countries live long Till the end, we don't bother The rulers may play political ping pong And in that madness, get stronger But the limitations must not be For the ordinaries Open the boundaries ...................................................... When animals have no borders, For the birds & fish , the world extends to their view Then why the human race is enchained, In the political division orders Common is our pain, But who bothers ??? Open the boundaries And break the borders .......

DOWN WITH THE RICH

DOWN WITH THE RICH ......................................................... by Dr.ZiaUllah Zia drziaullahzia@gmail.com .......................................................      In spite of the fact that the sources of income of the rich people might be genuine, their greatest crime is that their standard of living and quality of life does not match with that of their fellow beings (ie the common lot) , who are facing strong economic pressure eg inflation. The rich claim that if they have earned money & accumulated wealth either through their toil & hard work or through their academic performance and knowledge then the poor have no right to share their assets. This claim is false & this mentality is selfishness. Can you imagine that a sensible man with a throbbing heart can enjoy a luxurious meal in a hotel, while his worker sleeps empty stomach and his children die of malnourishment. How is it possible that a rich woman with a human soul can wear branded fashion d