"The Chauffeur"

Because I could not stop for 'Yamrajee'
She kindly stopped for me
The buffalo held just me and she
Fulfilling her duty, gave me immortality
and showing hospitality offered chocolates, biscuits and tea

We drove slowly as the buffalo was lazy
I asked"Why don't you replace it with a Ferrari?"
And I had put away my sleep, gals and dreams too
FOR HER LAZY DUTY!
I kept on insisting her to stop the watch
let me first check the drama and score of Ind-K-pak match

We passed the school, where children waste their time
Whether it is during recess or the class
We passed the fields , full of (dead)bodies, debris and tyranny

Must be some kind of earth-quake, Hi-tech War or the Tsunami
The climate was cloudy and it was not sunny
I now realized that 'Yamrajee' is not lazy
But I wondered how she gives immortality to so many?

We passed the Antartica and the cold reached to my bone marrow
I was shivering as the temperature was below-below-below Zero
Showing Empathy , she gave me a Shroud to Wear
I requested her to give a Tommy-Hilfiger Sweater!

We reached to a half buried house, it had a 'Tandoor' and small Garden
I angrily shouted " DO YOU CALL THIS HELL AND HEAVEN!?"
She became sad,silent, kept on thinking and i think was going to Jab!
I cooled her and suggested "Lets go to Dubai to Burj-Al-Arab"

Since Then centuries and yet
Feels great than the previous life's tyranny
As now we only travel in a red 'Ferrari' !

--------shahzad
Syed Abrar