- Country of Origin: India
Don’t stop me, Man, for I want to fly…
Let me be myself, for I want sky
My aim is beyond your comprehension, so let me go
I am restless while you sleep, for I must do what I have to do
I am hungry but I am aiming, my target too far
My perseverance is holier than the dew atop that mountain
Don’t stop me, Man, for I want to fly…
My passion burns me days and nights, and I die to live
Yes my friend, yes my foe, I am dead to the world
Hope not to conjure up your dead friend, for I am alive in another place
With my fecund imagination, I create a billion worlds of my own
The tyranny of little things can’t kill my fire — it burns and burns
I know I shall prevail against all odds
I will not tremble with the size of the times
I walk, I run, I rise, I fall…
My trials and tribulations are severe and dark
But I move like the wind and find my way like the water
Time waits me but I wait none
Quitting is worse than death when one life is what you get
So don’t stop me, Man, for I want to fly…
See, how I float with the time, talking to the wind…
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Anwar Huda
Anwar Huda is a writer, copy editor, poet, author, novelist, film writer-director, and translator (Hindi, Urdu and English). He had worked as Script Writer and Associate TV Serials Director with Balaji Telefilms and Contiloe Films. Huda had assisted Mr. Ranjit Kapoor (famed playwright and film writer) and Late Subodh Chopra in film and TV writing. He is also invited as a guest lecturer by various Mass Communication and Film Studies institutions. Mr. Huda is also the author of, among other books, The Art and Science of Cinema. Currently, he serves as the chief editor of Selfie Times magazine and Director of Selfie Times Studios.
