Emo Ode #33 to Lahore
From the Blog sonyarehman *By Sonya Rehman* Lahore you have broken my heart. Obliterated it. Since 1983 and counting. You are in the poorly-lit Cantt street where the neighbor's cook carries a bottle of flat coke in a Rahat packet, in the chilli yellow lights arranged in a wreath on an old pre-partition home (same street), that looks like a mini stable where chocolate brown horses – well-groomed – were once kept. Lahore you have torn me apart in your judgment of me, and yet you have shown me glimpses of acceptance, community, in the most unusual of faces, places. Lahore you have healed me – given me scarcity when there was too much scarcity, when I felt I was truly forsaken, dismissed, but in that you taught me self-reliance like a cold-hearted parent. Lahore, you are in the dhol-wallah's aura, on Mainpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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