Poem by the great Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Music and video by Laal

The ads at the top and bottom are an annoyance, but the interplay between the text of the poem and the drama in the video is too good to pass up. The Wikipedia article linked above says that Laal are

known for singing socialist political songs, especially those written by leftist Urdu poets such as Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Habib Jalib and Ahmed Faraz. The band received mainstream attention during the Lawyers’ Movement, in which it led support to the reinstatement of the then deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad. [...] Laal has not only managed to reconnect the people of Pakistan to the forgotten revolutionary socialist poets, but also introduced them to the youth

—which should serve as a reminder that, in some cultures, poetry still retains considerable power. (Hat-tip: verbal privilege.)