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Written by Mohiuddin Ahmad
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Tuesday, 21 March 2006 |
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Dear All
Though I shall not be able to participate in the WSF Karachi, my heart will be with you. I wish success of the process and the event and I dedicate a few lines for you.
Jihad
Mohiuddin Ahmad
21 March 2006
In too many fronts I am in strife
I have been fighting all through my life
I have been fighting ever since the dawn
I have been fighting since I was born
I fought for Spartacus inside the dome
I fought for slaves to retain their home
I fought for truth and freedom of speech
I drank Hemlock with Socrates
When Jhelum was seized by Alexander
I advised King Porus not to surrender
I was reborn with a name Bhagat Singh
I fought to rip up the colonial string
I fought together with Joan of Arc
I fought with Sandino to end the dark
I was with Lakshmi Bai to set Jhansi free
I fought with Zapata to free peasantry
When I was chained next to Prometheus
I didn't bow to the might of Zeus
I was reborn in a spring afternoon
I seized Paris to set up a Commune
I was in Manhattan with workers and allies
That was the beginning of Women's Day rallies
Clara Zetkin demanded women's right to vote
I was sitting beside her to lend my support
I fought for Lumumba to restore pride
That the people of Africa lost in the stride
I fought for Mandela to end apartheid
I spent in the jail thousands night
I am a homeless by Zionist design
I fought with Arafat to free Palestine
All razed in Hiroshima habitat and tree
I fight for a world that is nuclear-free
I was with Seymour Hersh in Vietnam War
I exposed to the world Mai Lai massacre
I was in the lockup at Guantanamo Bay
I suffered at Abu Ghraib day after day
I see famines taking a toll
Regimes carry on through their mole
People are tied to debt and dole
They don't understand millennium goal
I plough the land with all my toil
I grow plants from virgin soil
To GMS and high-breed I say no
I wage war against WTO
I was crucified for no crime
Yet I incarnate all the time
I walk around from Seattle to Rome
To bring peace for every home
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