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  “ Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable. ” Part 1 Karachi lies here between  The desert and the sea. The sages tell us  The water of the sea and the sand of the desert teach Many lessons  On forgiveness and forget On the constantly shifting  Shape of the sand  And the eternally breathing breast of the sea. But in this little slice of concrete  Between the wandering dunes  And the mystic waves  We must be stubborn  And look back but not forward And hold onto our woe For this is all we own. All we will ever own So let us go, dear traveller And make our grief our friend So Let us go, city dweller To The start and not the end. Part 2 1 Isn't this the room? Still the same wash of paint, Remember this shade  This shade of the afternoon That comes rushing through  The wall of six windows.  Oh the windo...

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