THE FIRE AND THE WATER- A Poem by Naheed Akhtar

The Fire and the Water

A poem by Naheed Akhtar

When green turned black

Was it meaningless?

Or just the colour change?

Many had many muses-

They sang their hearts

Or they had heard the music in trend

Fire in the forest is not always

Idiomatic;

It many times burns one top to bottom

And when it burns, it does charging

A high price -

From the ashes then

Does not rise the Pheonix

For the ashes is thrown in the water