{"id":6092,"date":"2018-05-16T07:58:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T14:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/?p=6092"},"modified":"2018-05-16T08:21:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T15:21:41","slug":"faiz-ahmad-faiz-bol-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/16\/faiz-ahmad-faiz-bol-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"Faiz Ahmad Faiz – Bol – Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bol \u2013 Speak
\nby Faiz Ahmad Faiz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

English version by Ivan M. Granger<\/font><\/p>\n

Speak! Your words are free.
\nSpeak! Your tongue is still your own.\u2028
\nYour body is yours, strong and straight.\u2028
\nSpeak! Your life is still your own.<\/p>\n

Look! In the forge\u2019s flames,
\nhow your steel glows red.
\nSee how the locked doors have opened
\nand every chain breaks.<\/p>\n

Speak! The time left to you is enough.
\nBefore body and tongue give out.
\nSpeak! For truth still survives
\nSpeak! Say what is in your heart!<\/em><\/p>\n


\/ Image by melaniumom<\/a> \/<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

It is worth taking some time to really pay attention to the news and some of the troubling events taking place right now. But it takes a deeper reading than we get in most US news sources to have a sense of what is really happening. The killing of the Palestinian protesters in Gaza in the wake of the US embassy move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The decision by the US to unilaterally break the Iran nuclear agreement, which was the only real reason the Iranian government had to cooperate. The US government tightening its alliances with the extremist governments in Saudi Arabia and Israel, who seem to want to foment a war with Iran.<\/p>\n

Events can unfold in several different directions, some terrible to contemplate.<\/p>\n

In such moments, the temptation is to turn away, to shut the heart down, to focus exclusively on our own lives, our own families and circle of friends. I would suggest that we can handle more than we think we can. The heart, to be whole, must break a thousand times and be ready to break again. An empathic heart is what keeps us alive and on the spiritual path. A feeling heart reaches out to embrace even those outside our circles of familiarity, expanding our own sense of who we are.<\/p>\n

And we have bodies, vehicles of action in the world. They are meant to express that awakened heart. They are meant to help, to soothe, to show kindness, to stop harm, for that is what the heart wishes.<\/p>\n

And we can speak. For speaking is an act of the living, an affirmation of one\u2019s humanity. Speaking is about connection, sharing one\u2019s state of mind that we may meet one another in the currents of truth.<\/p>\n

Speak! For truth still survives
\nSpeak! Say what is in your heart!<\/i><\/p>\n

Though speech we touch each other, heart to heart.<\/p>\n

Speak.<\/p>\n\n\n
\n\"Faiz<\/a>\n<\/td>\n\nFaiz Ahmad Faiz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Pakistan (1911 \u2013 1984) Timeline<\/a>
\nMuslim \/ Sufi<\/a><\/a>
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More poetry by Faiz Ahmad Faiz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bol \u2013 Speak by Faiz Ahmad Faiz English version by Ivan M. Granger Speak! Your words are free. Speak! Your tongue is still your own.\u2028 Your body is yours, strong and straight.\u2028 Speak! Your life is still your own. Look! In the forge\u2019s flames, how your steel glows red. See how the locked doors have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2165,1584,2164,893,2169,443,144,2168,2166,2167],"class_list":["post-6092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-bol","tag-empathy","tag-faiz-ahmad-faiz","tag-heart","tag-iran-nuclear-agreement","tag-israel","tag-pakistani-poetry","tag-palestinian-protesters","tag-speak","tag-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6092"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6101,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions\/6101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}