When the world is too much to bear,
When the heart is filled with fear,
When the sadness overcomes,
My heart from heel to hair,
I come to you, oh river.
When I see your flow,
Ebb and low,
I find in you,
A companion close,
And go away my woes.
Kamran Akhtar Siddiqui is a creative writer based in Sukkur, Pakistan. His work has been published on Spillwords, Poets for Science, Poetry Potion, in Flora Fauna magazine and Humsari (a Sindhi magazine).