My Selection — I Bow to Your Streets

By Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Image Credit Saad Chaudhry and Karsten Winegeart on Unsplash

Faiz Ahmad Faiz was a Pakistani poet who was nominated for Nobel Prize in 1984. He rejected the idea of “art for art’s sake” and chose a difficult path of revolution in his country. His commitment to humanism, democracy, and justice made his life terrible. He was imprisoned and tortured by the military government, but he didn’t quit the poetry of love for the country…