The flying birds 
Living in air above all 
Above these trees and cages 
And nests that breed 
The helplessness of greed 
Flying high day and night 
With wings and eyes 
Wide open to darkness and light 
They look never down but up 
They speed never backward but forward 
Soaring high and high with anger 
Of youth over the killing coup 
Down below rotting the little world 
Bartering the respect for every hunger 
The flying birds
Look old at young 
And die with a face of infant
their hard feet are made of mud 
From mountains and river bed 
Burnt in sun of history of war 
Their hands are smooth 
Like silk from good shepherd 
And kind like sea breeze 
Sailing the empty boats 
To the shores of sailors 
The flying birds 
Never cry at the pain 
Never smile at any trace of happiness 
They fly singing lines 
From some epic war 
That brought freedom and voice 
They fly very far 
Till they don’t hear 
The cries they fight for 
They feel the deafness 
Blinding their own voices 
In the heights filled with nothing space 
Their bodies heat up 
Losing the water 
To singing throats and hands that reap 
The empty fields of governance 
And the deadly crops of difference 
The flying birds 
Soon boil losing their blood 
To the sun that’s nearing 
Growing minute by minute more red 
To these friends of mine soaring 
The flying birds 
Have their flesh torn 
From friction of bulging gases 
Bringing out the new born 
From within the remains 
They soon die
In space out there 
For the smiles of world below here 
Their ashes are picked 
Up in the pages of history 
And are made strong but weak 
Strong because they inspire 
Weak because they just inspire. 
The coup never ends 
Like their desire to fly high 
And repair the sun above 
That breed the jungle below 
And their science 
To de-acidify the clouds 
That water the soils here. 
Nature is beyond their song 
And nobody knows what’s wrong. 
May be we shall never fly 
Like those flying birds 
Only to die 
To save the god in us.
-Aroon Che