Mustafa Zaidi - A poet remembered 7/9
(translation by author) His troubled soul had predicted the pattern of emigration: “I hope you may not end up desolate Anarchy may not replace the law Oh my country, so many of your citizens Are left with no choice but migrate.†By late 1970, Shehnaz, his true declared love, was moving away from him. The five ‘Shehnaz’ poems document in effect the evolution and climax of his passion, the decline and fall of their relationship and his underlying disappointment with life. The early ‘Shehnaz’ poems profess: “She was not an artist herself, but shared my art She shared the body in the journey of the spirit Whose modesty had been revealed page by page She accompanied me in every crease of the bed In one way, I was a fire-worshipper She experienced every angle of the garden.â€
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