Nida Fazli FIVE POEMS After a Long Time We have met after a long time. Come, let us leave the city behind; At the edge of a forest Try to drink from a water fall; Steal time from fleeting moments And live only for ourselves. No-one will see us, No-one will hear us. You say whatever you wish; Unafraid, I too criticize everyone I am so pleased to see every day The New Disease This is the new disease Of modern times; It has no symptoms Which can be diagnosed. Every medicine useless, The healer shamefully admits defeat. Today, every flourishing field Grows silence with its wheat: Cold silence Enters the belly, Devours the glow of voices like a termite. This well-dressed man with sealed lips Can see, But cannot speak; Can think, But cannot shout.