– "I am also of Human Kind"

Now for some poetry! Here is beautiful poem from Amrita Pritam, arguably one of the best Punjabi (my Mother Tongue) poet the language has ever seen!

I am also of human kind
I am the sign of that injury,
The symbol of that accident,
Which, in the clash of changing times,
Inevitably hit my mother’s forehead.

I am the curse
That lies upon man today.
I came into being
When the stars were falling
When the sun had been quenched
And the moon darkened.

. . .

Who can guess
How difficult it is
To nurse barbarity in one’s belly
To consume the body and burn the bones?
I am the fruit of that season
When the berries of Independence came into blossom.