A month after ....... !
You could have a change of heart if you would only change your mind/ Instead o

By MAHTAB BASHIR
mahtabbashir@gmail.com
ISLAMABAD
I will wrangle for my love, fight for it, die for it, write for it, anything but live for it. A young beau met out of the blue with his inveterate lass. Wow! Some girls have all the luck. Where have you been? I have been searching you high and low since ages. I will not let you off. I regard you a paragon of a true blue soulmate. You are my heart’s frill. You tune up my out of tune life’s rhythm as I see your divine face. The harder I try, the further you get away from me. I am mad about you. This is not a slip of tongue. Where did I go wrong?
He recounted his wrenching plight and said, I was dragooned in le miseries and lost in the labyrinths of love and hate.
Loving you brought countless grief in my flowery life. Strangers first hurling threats at me. Last month they took me blindfold at the dead end. They hoodwinked me into marriage for someone they thought a better option than you. As I reached at the

Do you believe, said beau, that mankind have always cutting one another’s throats, that they were always liars, knaves, treacherous and ungrateful; always thieves, mean highwaymen, lazy, envious, and gluttons, always misers, ambitious yet blood-thirsty, always backbiters, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and yet fools. Do you not believe, said lass, ‘that hawks have always preyed upon pigeons, when they could light up them? Certainly, said beau, ‘If the hawks have always had the same nature, what reason can you give- why mankind should have changed theirs? There is a great deal of difference, because of a free will …, said lass. I believe the day of my death is preordained, so why fret about - when that time will come?
2 comments:
Reading and wandering in labyrinths of love and hate.. I wonder if having a free will yet being stringed is the worst of all kinds of misery.
But if misery loves company, misery has company enough.. Thoreau said so.
‘If the hawks have always had the same nature, what reason can you give- why mankind should have changed theirs?
This comparison I was talking about. Why should the humans changed their nature. They won't ever. they will be the same as they were from the beginning.. Full of deceit and yet fools :)
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