The Most Dangerous

Most treacherous is not the robbery
of hard earned wages
Most horrible is not the torture by the police.
Most dangerous is not the graft for the treason and greed.
To be caught while asleep is surely bad
surely bad is to be buried in silence

But it is not most dangerous.

To remain dumb and silent in the face of trickery
Even when just, is definitely bad
Surely bad is reading in the light of a firefly

But it is not most dangerous

Most dangerous is
To be filled with dead peace
Not to feel agony and bear it all,
Leaving home for work
And from work return home
Most dangerous is the death of our dreams.

Most dangerous is that watch
Which run on your wrist
But stand still for your eyes.
Most dangerous is that eye
Which sees all but remains frostlike,
The eye that forgets to kiss the world with love,
The eye lost in the blinding mist of the material world.
That sinks the simple meaning of visible things
And is lost in the meaning return of useless games.

Most dangerous is the moon
Which rises in the numb yard
After each murder,
but does not pierce your eyes like hot chilies.

Most dangerous is the song
which climbs the mourning wail
In order to reach your ears
And repeats the cough of an evil man
At the door of the frightened people.

Most dangerous is the night
Falling in the sky of living souls,
Extinguishing them all
In which only owls shriek and jackals growl,
And eternal darkness covers all the windows.

Most heinous is the direction
In which the sun of the soul light
Pierces the east of your body.
Most treacherous is not the
robbery of hard earned wages.
Most horrible is not the torture of police
Most dangerous is not graft taken for greed and treason.

Credits: Avtar Singh Sandhu (Pash)
 
thaxx a lot, keep it up coverting punajbi poems to english, realized that our literature r also rich similar to the European countries

Yes you are exactly right, punjabi cultures is as rich as others. There were many legends, but in my opinion, punjabi community tends to read less books as compared to other communities....so unintentionally, we ignore our legends. Aapan taan textbooks masan read kari di ih! Because there are many legends like Bhai Kahan Singh Nabha, Sirdar Kapur Singh, Prof. Mohan Singh, Nanak Singh, Pash, Baba Farid, Baba Nanak, Shah Hussain, Bulley shah, Sultan Bahu, Waris Shah, Mian Mohammad, Shiv kumar batalvi, Dhani Ram Chatrik...and many others.

Asal vich aapna kafi invaluable literature shahmukhi(arabic script of punjabi) vich peya hai(written by sufi saints before partition), but we dont know that language...and it is hard to learn!
check the following impressive online titles on this website in the shahmukhi:
APNA, Academy of the Punjab in North America

This is link to learn shahmukhi(but it is not ez)
Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi by Hazara Singh
 
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